An Author's Notebook

I had a significant birthday the other week: I turned 40. My six-year old son assured me that I was now "properly grown up". This ...

Somewhere in Tanzania there is a boy working long, tedious hours as a night watchman. Scraping together his meagre wages, he has managed to ...

There is a certain field in Henley that is green and pleasant and beloved of local dog walkers. Being the proud, new owner of a Labrador pup...

Ever since some bright spark  from  Mesopotamia   in 3200 BC  invented a system of writing, we have used the written word to express ourselv...

Dame Stella: MI5's first female head Credit: James Gifford-Mead We had a marvellous day out last Saturday: we went en famille to an...

Not so long ago I felt like I was waging my own ebook revolution. Having published my first novel as a Kindle book on Amazon last year, I f...