Behind the Biz is all about highlighting exciting businesses, discovering the story behind the founders and inspiring you, the reader, to embark upon your own business journey. In today’s Behind the Biz interview I’m chatting with Matthew Smith, the founder of Urbane Publications – one of UK’s fastest growing independent publishers. Please...
Despite the unreliability of my writing hormones post(book)partum, you’re going to get my first impressions of being newly delivered of a shiny book baby. After years of gestation; months of antebooknatal tests (i.e. proofs - sorry, enough); loads of online interviews and a couple of bladder-pressing stints on radio... The...
Brexit’s ever-present spectre of Enoch Powell One only has to Google ‘enoch powell brexit’ to see the relevance of Enoch Powell to today’s political climate. There are some fifty references. An astonishing number for a politician who died in 1998, long before Brexit was a movement, or even a...
When my publisher asked if I had any ideas in mind for the cover of my new book, I’m not sure they were prepared for the Pinterest board I’d been adding to steadily for over a year! I had eleventy-million ideas and couldn’t begin to think how they could all...
Nathan Finewax is a cleaner in a hospital steadily falling apart. He's working on a ward where staff cheat, lie and steal to get ahead, where targets, death tolls and finance overrule patient care, and every day the same mistakes are repeated in a seemingly unstoppable wave of failures. Nathan...