On the outside, Libby Page's life looks pretty perfect. Just 27, she has already written two hit novels - the Sunday Times bestseller The Lido and now, The 24 Hour Cafe. She has worked in both fashion journalism and in marketing, and briefly lived in P...

Would we all be happier if we took up gardening? Possibly. Certainly, when Alice was left heartbroken after the collapse of a long-term relationship, she found tending to the collection of plants on the balcony of her South London flat helpful. The cre...

What a way to start the new series! So much about this very special conversation with the literary legend that is Isabel Allende will stay with me - from her meeting with Barack Obama (he's ‘adorable’ apparently) to the terrible grief she experienced a...

It’s the final episode of the year!!!!! Thank you so much to everyone who has listened to the Sunday Salon - after 48 episodes (!) I’m having a break for a few weeks, but I’ll be back next year with a new series.

I’ve known Catriona Innes for a little while now - she is the features director at Cosmopolitan and we shared an office when I was the acting deputy editor at ELLE. But I knew of her before that - because of her award-winning journalism, which has tak...

My guest this week is Eleanor Morgan, whose second book Hormonal: A Conversation About Women’s Bodies, Mental Health and Why We Need to Be Heard came out this year. It’s brilliant and beautifully written, combining Eleanor’s own experience with detaile...

Naomi Shimada and Sarah Raphael have spent much of their adult lives working online. Sarah has been an editor at major digital titles including Refinery 29, where she was editor, then editor at large. Naomi, meanwhile, is a model and activist, with ten...

Dawn O’Porter is brilliant. Not only has she fronted smart, thought-provoking documentaries, but she is also an author, including of the Sunday Times bestseller, The Cows. Now she has followed it up with So Lucky, a funny, honest, story of three women...

It's that time of year... party season is almost upon us and with it the social pressure it brings. As a closet introvert, I have had my fair share of party-fear. So it was a total delight to talk to Jessica Pan about her hilarious book Sorry I'm Late,...

Flo Perry is a writer and illustrator, whose recently released book How To Have Feminist Sex uses both of those skills. The result is funny, acerbic and smart - a taboo-busting guide that tackles everything from pubic hair to consent. I loved chatting...