An Author's Notebook

The shocking murder of Sarah Everard has unleashed a torrent of emotion around male harassment of women. Abductions of young women are tra...

Christmas is an elaborate production. The sheer brilliance of it is that everyone collaborates in one way or another - whether that's bu...

A friend and I were discussing what I should buy her little girl for Christmas. We hit upon Lego. "Friends Lego, the pink stuff?" ...

Social conditioning has a lot to answer for. It is one of those vague terms used to explain away all sorts of injustices in the battle for g...

When I was about 11 years old, I wrote a story about an Arab princess who escaped her home country by driving over the border to a new life....

In 1403 an enterprising group of booksellers (known as stationers) set up a fraternity of tradesmen. A few hundred years later in 1670, aft...

"I didn't know ladies could smoke!" my young son once exclaimed  sotto voce after watching a (female) friend light up in the...