Last week we welcomed a new baby boy into our family. (left). At the same time I was reading up on pregnancy and the care of babies as par...

The March girls and their mother: Jo is top left (as you'd guess) I wish I could remember who it was wrote a piece about the sexu...

It's good to have your values questioned - why do you write? What do your books say about what you believe in? There is nothing like...

Earlier this month I sat on the floor in John Keats’s bedroom  and Inua Ellams read me poetry. I like sentences like that. The experie...

We all know soldiers have private lives. Novels about war naturally devote space to characters’ back-stories, thoughts, feelings and re...