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New Year? Bah! Humbug!

30th December 2013

As my final day of drinking alcohol, eating chocolate and refusing to exercise begins, I have been reflecting on how dull New Year’s Eve really is. Not only because you only have a few hours to do a lot of things you like doing such as sipping champagn …

Happy Birthday to me…

15th December 2013

Tomorrow is my birthday. The older I get, the less obvious birthdays become. When you’re a child they’e something you yearn for and look forward to and you just know the whole day will be special and involve everyone around you doing exactly what you w …

A VERY Happy Birthday…

2nd December 2013

To paraphrase Camus, I thought my father died yesterday, or was it the day before yesterday? Two days ago, I had an email from my mother telling me he was in a coma. After frantic chats with the doctors the news that he was unlikely to pull through. At …

The Buzzword Bingo Book

28th November 2013

The Complete, Definitive Guide to the Underground Workplace Game of Doublespeak In its top 10 workplace problem list, the Houston Chronicle put ‘poor communication’ as among the top issues that most employees complain about. Because of too much focus o …

Two weeks on, two weeks off

5th November 2013

I feel a bit like an oil-rig worker at the moment. Except that I have never been on an oil rig. I am literally hardly ever in one place for more than two weeks at a time. At the moment I am enjoying an unusual stint on the oil-rig (that is, life in Abu …

Blog from the Emirates Festival of Literature

29th October 2013

From the Author’s Desk… Helena Frith Powell We asked authors from our previous Festivals five questions and here are the answers: How did you enjoy the LitFest experience? I absolutely loved it, the quality of authors and events was fabulous. One of th …

They think it’s all over….

17th October 2013

Yesterday as I was clearing out the attic at home in France I stopped myself from throwing away one of Leo’s favourite baby toys. My reasoning was that it might come in useful for my grandchildren. At the time, it was a terrifying thought. Not that I a …

Sticks and stones…

1st October 2013

This is not usually a forum for serious topics, but I want to highlight Vicki’s story. She is a friend of a friend, who is in the process of escaping from her husband and emotional abuser. They have three small children, twins aged four and a toddler b …

The great style conspiracy…

30th September 2013

Is it purely coincidence that when 50 Shades of Grey topped the bestseller lists all over the world, leather was suddenly back in fashion? Even M&S has now come up with a pervy underwear range. I sometimes wonder if there is a conspiracy by some al …

Good Housekeeping yummy mummy column

26th September 2013

Mothers no longer have the luxury of looking like slobs and blaming it on their children. No, these days we are all expected to be yummy mummies; back in our skinny jeans minutes after giving birth, our nails manicured and our hair perfectly blow-dried …

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Helena Frith Powell was born in Sweden to a Swedish mother and Italian father, but grew up mainly in England. She is the author of eleven books, translated into several languages including Chinese and Russian. She wrote the French Mistress column The Sunday Times about life in France for several years. She is a regular contributor to the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Tatler Magazine and Harper’s Bazaar.

Helena has been the editor of four magazines, including M Magazine, a supplement for the Abu Dhabi-based National Newspaper and FIVE, a high-end fashion glossy, also published in Abu Dhabi. Helena was also editor-in-chief of 360 Life, a quarterly glossy magazine published with the Sports 360 Newspaper in Dubai, part of the Chalhoub Group.

Helena contributes regularly to UK-based newspapers and magazines and holds a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge. She is working on a thriller set in Sweden as well as a novel about the relationship between Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield called Sense of an Echo.

In 2022 her short story The Japanese Gardener came second in the Fish Publishing Short Story Prize. One of her stories was also shortlisted for the Bridport Short Story Prize. When she’s not writing, she works as a headhunter for the media and entertainment industry for the Sucherman Group. 

Helena, who was educated at Durham University, lives in the Languedoc region of France with her husband Rupert and their three children.

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