The Gift Guide 2 of 4: Kids - Charlotte Philby

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

‘Hitting rock bottom enabled me to think about what I wanted from life’

By Staff, 21st July 2019
Features My piece for the August 2019 issue of Marie Claire on perseverance in the face of adversity, and the importance of failure in getting to where you want to be

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 '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

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