#journalism

Barbara Copperthwaite

Back to the day job…

My kingfisher sketch for the article With FLOWERS FOR THE DEAD still a bestseller, it’s been a little surreal to have to go back to my...

Barbara Copperthwaite

Busy, busy, busy!

I dream of having time to put my feet up, watch a good film, and eat lots of chocolates. Fat chance! Day off? What’s that? That is what I...

Barbara Copperthwaite

When evil shapes us

One of the fascinating things about being a journalist and an author is when real life and fiction blend together. This weekend I had one...

Barbara Copperthwaite

Just imagine…

IMAGINE YOUR mobile phone going off, and you realise it’s a friend who has accidentally pocket dialled you. Common enough. Then imagine...

Barbara Copperthwaite

Lie to your face…

One of the themes of my best selling novel, Invisible, is how people can’t always see what is right in front of them, despite it being...

Barbara Copperthwaite

Seconds from catastrophe

LIFE CAN change in a fraction of a second just through a chance meeting. It is, one of the things I’m writing about in my new novel, and...

Barbara Copperthwaite

A weekend to get my teeth into

A QUIET weekend is a rare thing for the self-employed, and I am no exception. Yesterday I wrote a feature about a lady who is now being...

Barbara Copperthwaite

Stranger than fiction

IT’S VERY easy to sit in judgement of someone. To criticise their life and smugly think: “I would never be so silly as to be fooled like...

Barbara Copperthwaite