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Wednesday, 25 February 2015
A new kind of alchemy
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A few months ago I had the pleasure of shepherding a group of excitable seven-year olds around the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. The highligh...
Wednesday, 11 February 2015
All hail the House of Winser!
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People watching: Kim Winser, OBE and founder of Winser London So what do Yasmin Le Bon, Emma Watson and David Beckham have in common? In ...
Tuesday, 3 February 2015
A book in flight
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Yesterday was a significant day for me. I sent my new novel out into the world on the wings of an email. The laptop even made that little wh...
Monday, 26 January 2015
Princesses in the tower
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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....
Wednesday, 14 January 2015
Don't need no 'sex' education...
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Hermaphrodite Mum Three kids and a single mum Quiet One has sex education coming up at school. Hopefully not a demonstration of whips and...
Thursday, 8 January 2015
Mum's the word
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Minutes before the dawn of the new year, I found myself locked in a dispute over gender. As our wineglasses glittered in the dying candlelig...
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