An Author's Notebook

It has been a confusing time. In some ways, I've found the last few weeks of relative freedom more challenging than full-on lockdown. ...

The Black Lives Matter protest came to the small market town of Henley yesterday, a mark of how widespread the movement has become. We were...

Throughout the coronavirus lockdown, there will be children stuck at home who have suffered emotional or physical abuse; kids who've wit...

The first time I ever sampled sourdough, I was at a business lunch with a contact in New York during the late 1990s. Mid-conversation, sitti...

The depressing thing about getting old er is that you'll never be young again. Yes, an obvious point (but bear with me). I look in the ...

We got our letter from Boris yesterday. Poor man - I'm sure he didn't imagine he'd end up in hospital himself when he was sittin...