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The first Emerald Street Literary Festival

Published by Emma Lee-Potter in on Sunday 12th June 2016

Like everyone else I know, I’m deluged with emails, newsletters and press releases from dawn till dusk. But there’s one that arrives at around noon each day that I always look forward to reading. Emerald Street is the daily email from Stylist magazine and it’s packed with great things – book reviews, fashion and beauty recommendations, restaurant reviews and links to thought-provoking features. I’m such a fan that as soon as I spotted that ...keep reading

Maggie O’Farrell’s new novel

Published by Emma Lee-Potter in on Saturday 6th February 2016

Maggie O’Farrell is one of my favourite authors. She always has been – ever since I picked up a copy of After You’d Gone, her first novel, and didn’t put it down till I’d finished it at three in the morning. So when the Headline team announced it was holding a Rooftop Book Club event to promote O’Farrell’s forthcoming novel This Must be the Place I booked a couple of tickets ...keep reading

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Published by Emma Lee-Potter in on Sunday 15th February 2015

The brilliant Stylist magazine has just run a feature about “the most addictive page turners to chomp through in one weekend or less.” As the magazine says: “An addictive book is like a particularly tempting hunk of crumbly cheddar cheese. We know we should step back and take time to covet it over a series of slow, delicious weeks. But we can rarely resist the urge to dive straight in and ...keep reading

My favourite glossy magazine

Published by Emma Lee-Potter in on Tuesday 29th January 2013

Glossy magazines have always been a big part of my life. My mum started her career as a feature writer for Woman’s Mirror, a weekly magazine in the Sixties, and I can vividly remember the day she met me from primary school brandishing a tall retro coffee pot in her hand. She’d bought it with the proceeds of her first magazine commission and she was SO proud. So was I ...keep reading

My favourite novels of 2012

Published by Emma Lee-Potter in on Monday 31st December 2012

It’s New Year’s Eve, so what better time to look back over a year of brilliant reads? I love reading about other people’s favourite books of the year, so as 2012 draws to a wet and windy close, here is my list. The Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman Australian ML Stedman’s first book is the moving account of a young lighthouse keeper and his wife in the 1920s. The ...keep reading