An Author's Notebook

I blame Facebook. For all those wasted hours. Every morning, I settle down in front of my computer, flex my fingers above the keyboard and m...

Whenever I succumb to a bit of navel-gazing, the subject is always the same. How to be happy. You'd have thought I'd got it sussed b...

It's a downward slope to Christmas but a recent family trip to Gran Canaria has made me feel quite chipper about donning my winter wool...

Notes from the Henley Literary Festival 2017 My son meets children's author Katherine Rundell, who researched her latest novel Th...

Notes from the Henley Literary Festival 2017 I've always been slightly intrigued by  Nick Clegg . A silver-tongued, liberal politician...

Hermaphrodite Mum   Three kids and a single mum I read in The Times newspaper that a quarter of 14-year old girls are depressed . Good g...