From book to screen

By Charlotte Philby, 28th February 2023
Features Free resources and tips for would be screenwriters, from a complete novice - and some professionals - as I navigate the process of adapting my novels for TV and film

‘A tremendous achievement’ William Boyd

By Charlotte Philby, 20th April 2022
Features A Sunday Times best book of the month, here is Edith and Kim in review - and where to find signed first editions

Life in the time of Coronavirus

By Charlotte Philby, 26th March 2020
Features Marie Claire asked me to write about working from home with three children, a dog, a cat, and my husband. I did, and it ain't pretty

New Statesman: Walking An Old Man Home in Camden Town

By Charlotte Philby, 26th March 2020
Features My piece for the Personal Story slot in the New Statesman is a love letter to London pubs, and a lament for the people to whom these places were once home

Growing up in the shadow of the Third Man

By Charlotte Philby, 21st July 2019
Features In this long read for the ipaper, I explore what it was like for my father, John, to learn his father, Kim Philby, was a Communist double agent

Writing and Motherhood

By Charlotte Philby, 8th July 2019
Features For a new series by Riposte magazine on motherhood and identity, I explore how writing fiction became an escape, and then a career, after having children

‘The Night Manager set in a woman’s world’

By Charlotte Philby, 6th May 2019
Features Radio 4 Open Book's editors pick, and One to Watch in The Observer and The Bookseller (small shriek), read the first reviews and order my debut novel, The Most Difficult Thing

Marie Claire: Why we need to talk about miscarriage

By Charlotte Philby, 18th April 2019
Features In this piece for the May 2019 issue of Marie Claire magazine, I recall my own experience and speak to others affected by one of the last taboos

Author Lee Child on why he never plots his novels

By Charlotte Philby, 6th March 2019
Features I spoke to the bestselling crime writer for Marie Claire on the importance of remembering that fact is often stranger to readers than fiction

Decoding Your Dark Side

By Charlotte Philby, 26th February 2019
Features, Relationships As Dr Julia Shaw's book Making Evil is published to great acclaim, she tells me, in this piece for Marie Claire, why a new movement is encouraging us to embrace our darkest thoughts, rather than shy away from them