Author and journalist Fiona Neill explores the experience of growing up in a creatively successful family in FAMOUS FOOTSTEPS – a major new series starting this week on BBC Radio 4. . Fiona considers the challenges of maintaining a creative career while bringing up small children. How does a writer, working at home, manage to carve out the mental and physical space to work? Is the ‘pram in the hallway’ really a barrier to creative thought? She talks to Jennifer Saunders, Adrian Edmondson, Daphne Du Maurier’s daughter Tessa Montgomery and songwriter Guy Chambers about their experiences of balancing these conflicting demands.
Listen in on Tuesday at 09:30 on BBC Radio 4 and throughout the week on Listen Again here
Fiona’s new novel FRIENDS, LOVERS AND OTHER INDISCRETIONS is out on Feb 1Oth in paperback from Arrow.
Yes Man author
Danny Wallace is to star in an American television pilot of his new book
Awkward Situations for Men.
The title, which will be published in the UK on 3rd June by Ebury Press, has been commissioned for a pilot episode by American television network ABC.
The TV project, from Warner Bros. TV and Heyday Films, will follow Wallace’s character as he moves to America with his wife, only to discover that his everyday behaviour clashes with American values and gets him into trouble.
Wallace said: “I’m thrilled that the next book will have a life beyond the pages… Making a TV show for an American audience is exciting, but daunting, too… nevertheless, I intend to give it a good go, for Britain, and to avoid as many awkward situations as I can while doing so…”
Time to start with a clean 
slate and to finally get your life in order? Luckily Mike Gayle has done a lot of the work for you in his laugh-out-loud memoir THE TO-DO LIST.
Here are some wonderful early reviews for the paperback….
MAIL ON SUNDAY (3 Jan)
“A book guaranteed to appeal to disorganized slackers everywhere”
CLOSER MAGAZINE (5 Jan)
“You’ll laugh out loud throughout this brilliant and utterly hilarious read” *****
The formal dinner party may be dead, but its exuberant younger cousin lives on in a thousand middle-class homes – informal, competitive, prone to tears and culinary disasters and a hotbed of gossip. It’s boosted by the phenomenal ratings of television’s Come Dine With Me and now you can join in too.
The Lady, courtesy of Jessica Ruston, is hosting its very own supper party each week in Come for Dinner, a serial that takes place in and around a pocket of streets in South London, and tells the stories of a group of friends and neighbours through their dinner parties and kitchen suppers.
Come for Dinner and meet a group of characters who you will grow to love – peer through the French windows of their kitchens, and eavesdrop over the pre-dinner drinks, sit down at their tables and gasp at the revelations that follow…
You can read the first episode online here
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