An Author's Notebook

Women and work. It has never been an easy coupling when you throw children into the mix. Those of us choosing to stay at home are now  domes...

It is not every day that you open your front door to find a Maasai teacher on your doorstep. About a month ago my friend Janine brought roun...

I have noticed a new phenomenon over the past few months: the emergence of a woman called Mummy. Everywhere you look online, there are mu...

Gao Gajah: water for purifying yourself before entering the temple   Back in the late 1970s, when my parents lived in Jakarta, we used t...

Earlier this year I joined Twitter. One of my first followers (a friend) welcomed me to the site and dropped #twitteramateur into her t...

  On a beautiful, sunny day in Ibiza some years back, I started to compose my first novel on a Palm Pilot with an impossibly s...