One aspect of growing into my more mature years is realising that I’m never going to get through my current To Read pile(s) of books. Does that stop me buying more? No! Nor does it prevent me from asking [...]
The Christmas holiday in our house officially starts when we pull the decorations out of storage from the garage. For a couple of days the house is a mess and then, like magic, our home is transformed into a [...]
Ylva is delighted to give a shout out today to all our winners at the Rainbow Awards 2016. And we’re celebrating with a special discount, for today only, on our fang-tastic overall winning title, Ex-Wives of Dracula. Georgette Kaplan’s [...]
Midwinter celebrations of light, in many varieties, have long been part of human culture, but Christmas is unique in that the Christ is the incarnate symbol of the light in the darkness. And, while I have not been a [...]
We’re excited to announce author Lee Winter has joined the Ylva staff as its Digital Content Manager. Among other things, she is in charge of editing our blogs and various content we produce for the public. Lee, the award-winning [...]
I have always loved stories of people’s lives. It doesn’t matter how different they are from mine, I am just as devoted to biographies and autobiographies of my polar opposites as much as people from my own tribe. In [...]
How cruel is it to ask me to hand in a top-five of books? Hello? At best I could come up with a list of top fifty. But, since this isn’t allowed, I decided to make a list of [...]
I wish I was less messy. I do. I wish I didn’t have to tidy my room twice a day because the chaos monkey part of me cannot clean up after herself while the uptight Virgo part of me [...]
Ask anyone who is yet to visit Australia what’s the first thing that comes to mind when they think of the country. Kangaroos? Yup, probably. Sydney Opera House? High on the list for city lovers. The Great Barrier Reef? [...]
In the end it always boils down to the princess in the tower waiting to be rescued. Either by a prince on his noble steed, a hunter with whetted knives or the king’s son with his weird shoe fetish. Basically, [...]