JANE CORRY

Jane Corry has written stories ever since she can remember. After reading English at university, she trained as a journalist with Thomson Newspapers before becoming a features writer at Woman’s Own. When her first child was born, she wrote freelance columns for The Times and Woman magazine.

Her marriage ended just as her first romantic novel was published, and her private and professional lives took an unexpected turn. She was offered a job as writer-in-residence at a high security male prison and this changed her approach to writing. ‘It made my style darker and I began to write psychological suspense novels,’ she says. These are making the bestseller lists. Now happily married again, she and her family live in Devon, where she helped found the Sidmouth Literary Festival.

DAILY STRENGTHS FOR DAILY NEEDS by Mary Wilder Tileston

‘This book has three or four different sayings for each day of the year. Some are religious, others philosophical or simply words of wisdom from well-known and unknown authors. My mother left it to me when she died aged 56, but