Author The Shortlisted

Exactly like last year, I'll leave you in peace for the Summer. These are going to be my activities until September: ♥ Fixing this website that is getting slower and slower (if you are an IT man, I might t...

Not many people have heard this story, and I’m sure the person I’ll be talking about doesn’t even remember that day. Sure thing, he won't care. This happened in SW London, in 2015. It was nearly Spring. ...

There was this guy I once almost fell for who used the word failure all the time, but if you looked at him, you wouldn't see any failure whatsoever. His life had been a rapid succession of personal, professiona...

In my life, I have gone blonde, ginger, blue-black, highlighted and I then got back to brown (and yes, I was awfully ugly with ginger hair, but you know, I was 14 at the time and I didn't understand anything), ...

I've always dreamt about having, you know, a catchy surname. Mine is not sexy at all, and it also contains my unfavourite consonant ever, the G. But at least I'm not named after a stupid Spring month of the ye...

Alana Spencer is the Welsh chocolate & cake company owner who won the BBC Apprentice  2016, as well as the only candidate scoring a full 10/10 in my BBC Apprentice 2016: Meet the Candidates: The Shortliste...

I guess you know What I mean It’s like when you say That you want a job The one job Anyone else wants It’s like when you try to repeat yourself That you'd be mad not to jump at the opportunity The o...

When you are about to fly to the U.S. and you seek help around to prepare for the language shock, everyone tells you not to worry, that British English and American English are just the same, apart from minor d...