Colette McBeth may be familiar to readers, not as an author, but as a crime correspondent for BBC News, where she worked for 10 years. She has obviously used this time to work on some great storylines, judging from her debut novel ‘Precious Thing’. The book has been...

In a new book, Colette McBeth explores the power play in female relationships and draws on her own lifelong friendship. I’m standing in front of a class, all eyes trained on me. I’m eight, wearing a scratchy new uniform and speaking with a Scottish accent that will...

It was 1997; I’d reached the end of my university life and headed off to spend four months working in Ibiza. It was a wild, one-off goodbye to freedom summer. It was also the summer that the idea for my novel first came to me. Ibiza was a place where you lived in the...