I am so excited about this week's episode - it's actually the second time that Emma has been on The Sunday Salon. Last time, we were discussing her hugely successful book The Multi-Hyphen Method, about combining different jobs into one career. Now she'...

I am so excited that my guest this week is the journalistic legend that is Alexandra Shulman. As well as being British Vogue's longest serving editor in chief (she ran the title for more than 25 years), she is the author of two novels, as well as Insid...

I am so delighted that my guest this week is Pandora Sykes, whose new book, How Do We Know We're Doing It Right? Essays on Modern Life, is a thought-provoking and insightful dissection of contemporary fads and foibles - from wellness and self-optimisat...

Fashion! Psychodrama! Jealousy! Harriet Walker's debut novel The New Girl has it all. A psychological thriller about the relationship between a magazine's fashion editor and her maternity cover, I could not put it down - and I'm not surprised that it i...

Yara Rodrigues Fowler is a force of nature. Last year, she published her debut novel Stubborn Archivist, a complex and subtle examination of identity, trauma and recovery which straddles Brazil and South London, winning high praise from critics and ear...

My guest this week is Leaf Arbuthnot, whose debut novel Looking For Eliza could hardly have been better timed: telling the story of the friendship that evolves between Ada, a widowed writer, and Eliza, a young student, it taps into big subjects such as...

Two twin sisters, one trauma, two very different paths. One night, Stella and Desiree witnesses the lynching of their father by a group of white men. The night sets them on dramatically different paths, with Stella constructing a new identity and “pa...

Zeba Talkhani's memoir My Past Is a Foreign Country: A Muslim Feminist Finds Herself is extraordinary, charting her experience growing up in Saudi Arabia and her journey to find freedom in India, Germany and the UK. It is an absolutely fascinating read...

Have you ever got halfway through a creative project, only to abandon it - and then wonder what could have been had you completed it? That is what happened to the journalist Jenny McCartney. Having grown up in Northern Ireland, she reported on the para...

I confess, I’m slightly obsessed with this week’s guest - not least because she is probably the first person I’ve interviewed who can claim to have written 20 bestsellers in 20 years. Yes, it is Adele Parks, author of, among others, Lies Lies Lies, Pla...