An Author's Notebook

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...

Imagine what it feels like. You wake up on Monday morning feeling flattened. Perhaps for a few seconds there is blissful oblivion, but then ...

Hermaphrodite Mum Three kids and a single mum If I could bestow a single gift upon my children, it would be social confidence. Already I ...

Just on my way, Ross... ©  Mammoth Screen / BBC Last week I saddled up my horse and galloped off to find Poldark . Well, in a manner ...

My daughter found something out about herself this week. After taking a narrator role in her school play, she discovered she rather enjoyed ...

I finally worked out who Bradley Cooper was the other day. Yes, I know - I have been living under a rock. Last Saturday, my husband and I w...