"I became a doctor in my 40s – if you're thinking of changing course in life, you should go for it" Joanna Cannon made a drastic career change - and has never looked back Woman & Home · Jul 24, 2025
By sleeping when everyone else is awake I cured my insomnia Turning normal sleeping cycles upside down helped this bestselling writer recover her energy The Guardian - UK · Dec 31, 2023
The London mental health guide: how and where to get help To mark #mentalhealthawarenessweek, here’s our guide to the finding the best therapy, apps, essential reading and more that can help ease the mind and lift the spirit Evening Standard · May 17, 2023
Points mean pages: why I’ve embraced the world of online reading challenges I’ve set a goal of reading 50 books this year, and logging my progress is strangely satisfying. Some might not approve of turning reading into a game, but if it works for you, why not? The Guardian - UK · Mar 28, 2023
In brief: The Wakes; Humanly Possible; A Tidy Ending – reviews A wittily poignant tale of friendship, death and unexpected joy; an impressively wide-ranging history of humanism; and a darkly comic crime novel The Guardian - UK · Mar 26, 2023
Holiday books: Fiction “The Marriage Portrait,” by Maggie O’Farrell. (Knopf, $28.) Tribune News Service · Dec 7, 2022
‘Oh, she gets away with so much’: The mischievous world of Kate Atkinson Kate Atkinson’s books have won prizes and been made into TV dramas, but the author prefers to let her work speak for itself. As her 12th novel ‘Shrines of Gaiety’ is released, Nick Duerden explores how she became one of our most brilliantly idiosyncratic bestsellers The Independent UK · Sep 24, 2022
When I became a doctor, I thought I could cope with the pain and death I would see. I was wrong I couldn’t deal with the emotional load, so I became a writer, and poured it on to the page, says Joanna Cannon The Guardian - UK · Aug 1, 2022
Thrillers of the month – review roundup Suburbia grows sinister in Joanna Cannon’s third novel, a singles club hides secrets in Jacqueline Sutherland’s debut and a twin hunts her sister’s killer in Will Dean’s latest The Guardian - UK · Apr 19, 2022