An Author's Notebook

You know it's Christmas when... Credit: William Lam you lose track of time your belly feels permanently distended you...

It has been a bumpy ride, this run-up to Christmas. My children are excited to be on holiday and the house is filled with light and festive ...

Hermaphrodite Mum Three kids and a single mum My children still believe in Father Christmas - even the eldest one, aged 12. It amazes me ...

People watching:  Kate Williams, founder of Handpicked by Kate Some years ago, I was introduced to a young woman at a party. Around her ...

Many of us will remember where we were last Wednesday. The day a borderline racist and a man who thinks nothing of mocking the disabled be...

For 51 weeks of the year, I rule over my children's diet with a rod of iron. Not too much sugar, oily fish twice a week, live yoghurt an...