The Gift Guide 2 of 4: Kids - Charlotte Philby

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

By Charlotte Philby, 6th May 2019
Features 'Brilliant', 'beautiful', 'compulsive', 'the twists keep coming, right down to that chilling last line'... Read the first reviews and preorder 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

New Statesman: Walking An Old Man Home in Camden Town

By Charlotte Philby, 18th April 2019
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

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

‘What I learned from six months off social media – and why I came back’

By Charlotte Philby, 25th September 2018
Features, Health, Technology In an article for Marie Claire, I reflect on what drove me away from instagram, Facebook, et al - and how half a year away gave me a revised approach to life online

Writers Bloc #1 Val McDermid

By Charlotte Philby, 25th September 2018
Features, Regulars From imposter syndrome to plotting, in a new series for Marie Claire authors give me chapter and verse on how the writing process works for them - starting with multi award-winning crime writer Val McDermid, who has written 32 books in as many years

The Lives of Others #6

By Staff, 23rd July 2018
Education, Features, Regulars, Travel Georgie Higginson moved from the UK to Uganda 14 years ago. After losing their daughter to stillbirth, she and her husband were inspired to build a lodge on the banks of the River Nile, overlooking Murchison Falls National Park - an area once occupied by LRA rebels

Global Village #6

By Charlotte Philby, 9th July 2018
Design, Features, Regulars, Travel Designer Kate Pietrasik lived in London, Edinburgh, New York and Byron Bay before moving to a town near Biarritz when her daughter was four years old. She reflects on life as a 'blended family', running her own business, and the joy of being rootless

Chapman Pincher: The Spy-Catcher of Fleet Street

By Charlotte Philby, 24th June 2018
Features On the eve of his 99th birthday, I spent the day with Chapman Pincher - and found the original spy-catcher still on the hunt for spooks

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