An Author's Notebook

People watching:   Karin Willems, co-founder of Zenza About seven years ago the renowned Dutch designer Li Edelkoort helped to kit out ...

What a difference a week makes! Only a few days ago we were about to rent out our house and move to a sunnier clime (possibly Cornwall) to ...

Today I am posting an excerpt from my new novel about a young woman trapped in a ruinous marriage in Jakarta, Indonesia, during the 1970s.  ...

Some of you may know my darkest secret: I attended a boarding school known as The Cheltenham Ladies' College . For years, during partie...

Dear readers, last week I received a Liebster Award from fellow blogger Seven Year Hitch . Before we all get too excited, it is not re...

Hermaphrodite Mum Three kids and a single mother Upstairs I can hear angry voices bouncing off the walls, punctuated by the banging o...