An Author's Notebook

Hermaphrodite Mum   Three kids and a single mum   "Are you alright?" asks Middle Child anxiously. I am beached on the sofa, o...

Book Review These days a working knowledge of nutrition has become part of a parent's job description. I'm forever persuading my k...

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...