Content Consultants

Daphne Metland has wide experience in health and lifestyle writing. She has worked in-house on Good Housekeeping and Homes and Gardens magazines and is a former Editor of Parents magazine. She has written freelance for the Sunday Times, The Times, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, Woman and Home magazine, Real magazine and many others.

Daphne handled the re-launch of babyworld.co.uk in early 1999, designing a completely new content tree, recruiting new writers and experts, introducing new interactive tools and the online antenatal classes.

In 2000 Daphne launched babycentre.co.uk in the UK.

She founded, and was Publishing Director of, the NCT Publishing from 1994 until 1999. During this time she produced the national journal, as well as a bookstall magazine and a range of books. She has contributed to several books and edited two colour hardback titles for the NCT. Her experience in preparing colour titles means that she is able to manage projects through all stages of the process.

She created a range of single-issue paperback books on pregnancy, birth and early parenthood under the banner of the charity. This meant developing a working relationship with the publisher, HarperCollins/Thorsons, deciding the book list; managing budgets and schedules; commissioning authors, editing the books and being involved in marketing and publicity.

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Expecting (Virago, 2004)

"Expecting is essential reading" - Lesley Page, Joint Head of Midwifery, Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospital

Co-written with Anna McGrail, Expecting guides you through pregnancy in a practical, balanced, and easy-to-read format. It has recently won an award from the British Medical Association.

Anna McGrail has been a freelance editor and writer since 1991, working not only on complex print and video projects, but also on several websites.

As the Managing Editor of Pavilion Publishing between 1995 and 1999, Anna was responsible for the development and editing of an extensive range of training materials, including video and audio packs, books and professional journals. She still takes on projects for Pavilion, and recently produced several training videos with accompanying print materials that were developed with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Anna is BabyCentre's Newsletter Editor and has worked on the site since 1999.

Anna is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and has also written several books including:

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Infertility: The Last Secret (Bloomsbury, 1999)

"If you or someone close to you is having difficulty conceiving, it is important to learn all you can about the subject as preparation for the months, or even years, ahead. This is the ideal book to give you that knowledge." Amazon.co.uk

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You and Your New Baby (HarperCollins, 1998)

This book won an award from the British Medical Association.

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Mrs Einstein (Anchor, 1998)

This novel has also been published in the US, Germany, Hungary and Turkey.

"A novel such as this can be a let-down unless it is written with depth of knowledge and exceptional narrative skill. This one has been brought off brilliantly." Daily Mail