Coverage, announcements, and the facts and files to write about FERAL without having to ask first. If what you need is not here, write to me.
Take what you need.
PRESS & PR
Avril Millar
Erudite, funny and wise
✦
Five careers, one thread
✦
Wild at heart · Wise by choice
✦
Erudite, funny and wise ✦ Five careers, one thread ✦ Wild at heart · Wise by choice ✦
Erudite, funny and wise: a candid guide to thriving in midlife from an older woman who has seen it all.
CHRISTIE WATSON · SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR
FERAL is Avril Millar's guide back to the woman you were before the world taught you to be tame. Five careers, a collapse, a rebuild, and thirty years spent working out how the mind actually holds up under load. Published 2 September 2026 by Rethink Press.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Dates for the diary.
BOOK
FERAL is Live
A Grown Woman's Guide to a Free and Ferocious Life, out from Rethink Press. Paperback, £16.99. ISBN 9781781339961. Review copies available on request.
BOOK
PODCAST
Feral's Den on YouTube
A weekly solo show. Twenty to thirty five minutes, direct to camera, recorded in Avril's sitting room. On YouTube, Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
PODCAST
AUDIOBOOK
FERAL, audiobook edition
AUDIOBOOK
COVERAGE
Interviews, features, reviews and guest appearances. Newest first.
In print, on air, and on the record.
THIS IS WOMAN'S WORK · EPISODE 447
28 October 2026
PODCAST
Nicole Kalil talks with Avril about the expectations that keep women small: reinvention, midlife and menopause, intuition, self-love and confidence, and what five careers and starting over at 50 taught her.
CEOWORLD MAGAZINE · EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
19 October 2026
BYLINE
Avril argues that AI meeting transcripts can quietly discourage candid disagreement, and that CEOs should read them anyway for what they reveal about who speaks, who is heard and who gets credit for ideas.
IT'S BIZZY PODCAST · EPISODE 682
15 October 2026
PODCAST
Avril talks to Elizabeth "Bizzy" Chance about losing nearly everything and starting again at 50, being adopted as a toddler, finding a brother and four sisters later in life, and money as a source of freedom.
THE LONDON LIBRARY · ALUMNI NEWSLETTER
9 October 2026
Emerging Writers Programme alumni news, October 2026
FEATURE
The London Library's Emerging Writers Programme alumni newsletter features Feral in its October alumni news.
ELITE BUSINESS MAGAZINE · REVIEWS
2 October 2026
REVIEW
A review of Feral in Elite Business Magazine, praising it as a candid, witty and direct call for women in business to define success on their own terms. Built on four principles (self-knowledge, language, regulation and boundaries), it makes the case for self-awareness as a leadership tool. Reviewed by Matt Davidson.
ENTREPRENEUR UK · OCTOBER ISSUE
1 October 2026
Avril Millar appears among the business, investment, technology and leadership voices in the October issue of Entrepreneur UK. The edition is headlined by Mel Morris CBE on building globally, and looks at the decisions and experiences shaping how businesses are built, backed and led today.
FEATURE
CHOOSE LIFE BOLDLY · JULIA MCELGUNN
29 September 2026
Avril talks to Julia McElgunn about moving from engineering to finance to tech, the pressures on women in midlife, reframing money and self-worth, and practical advice on valuing your work and negotiating pay.
PODCAST
TIMES RADIO · JANE MULKERRINS
19 September 2026
Avril joins Jane Mulkerrins on Times Radio for what she calls "a proper romp through what FERAL's about". Her segment starts at 1:17:33.
RADIO
BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT · WORKING LIFE
14 September 2026
A head-to-head in ZEIT SPRACHEN's Business Spotlight on whether office mandates are about productivity or power, with Avril Millar arguing the case against, opposite Jon Graves. Written by journalist Melita Cameron-Wood.
FEATURE
MISTRAL HOTEL · NEWSLETTER
The Mistral in Crete, where Avril has been a regular for ten years and where much of Feral was written, tells its readers about the book and the woman behind it: adopted as a toddler, starting again from nothing at fifty, and the sisters she found in her seventies.
13 September 2026
Wild at heart, wise by choice
FEATURE
SCOTTISH BUSINESS NETWORK
28 August 2026
Scottish Business Network celebrates Avril Millar's upcoming book Feral, highlighting her powerful perspective on reinvention, confidence and embracing new opportunities at every stage of life.
FEATURE
THE I PAPER · MONEY
25 August 2026
INTERVIEW
Starting from zero at 50 after seven years of illness, why a six figure income still does not feel like security, and what women are never taught about money. Interview by Emily Braeger.
24 August 2026
BYLINE
THE INDEPENDENT · WOMEN, IN FOCUS
A first person argument against the invisible woman framing, the industry that grew on top of it, and what happens when a woman measures her worth by other people's attention.
The facts, and the files.
PRESS KIT
TITLE
FERAL
A Grown Woman's Guide to a Free and Ferocious Life
SUBTITLE
Avril Millar
AUTHOR
Rethink Press
PUBLISHER
2 September 2026
PUBLICATION
FORMAT
Paperback
PRICE
£16.99
9781781339961
ISBN
Christie Watson, Sunday Times bestselling author
ENDORSEMENT
Feral's Den, a weekly solo podcast. Dispatches from Ferals' Ground on Substack.
ALSO
Two executive directorships, four non-executive director roles and several advisory roles, across medical technology, investment management, FX trading and sports performance technology.
CURRENT ROLES
Avril Millar is 74 and has five careers behind her. Her book FERAL: A Grown Woman's Guide to a Free and Ferocious Life is published by Rethink Press on 2 September 2026.
SIGN-OFF LINE
Review copies, interviews, extracts, podcast bookings and event requests. Say what you are working on and when you need it by.
Tell me what you need.
PRESS ENQUIRIES