An Author's Notebook

What kind of idiot drops their mobile phone down the loo? That's what I thought to myself a few months ago when my brother lost his iPho...

Food has never been more high profile. What with Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution Day , the rise of the  Insta-foodies , worries over scho...

Last Sunday I spent half an hour rifling through the contents of my larder cupboard and checking the sugar count in our cereals, sauces and ...

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 ...