An Author's Notebook

Two themes are dominating my notebook this week - literary festivals and our imminent move to a new house. In amongst pages of removal quote...

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...

Some of you will know that my nine-year old son, Tristan , was a finalist in the Henley Literary Festival short-story competition, run by D...

It's here, it's started! My brain is buzzing, my heart is full. Can you tell I'm excited? The Henley Literary Festival kicked o...

My feet have hardly touched the ground since 2016 kicked off in a burst of fireworks over the banks of the river Thames. Once the kids were ...

This is my short story that was shortlisted in the Henley Literary Festival 2015 short-story competition . A few of you have asked me to pos...

Notes from the Henley Literary Festival 2015 My favourite event in Henley's social carousel has come round again. For one glorious wee...

Notes from the Henley Literary Festival...  Doreen Lawrence , Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon, made a startling observation at the Henley ...

Notes from the Henley Literary Festival...  A few years ago an editor friend of mine at Headline Review sent me a copy of My Last Duches...

Ever since some bright spark  from  Mesopotamia   in 3200 BC  invented a system of writing, we have used the written word to express ourselv...

Dame Stella: MI5's first female head Credit: James Gifford-Mead We had a marvellous day out last Saturday: we went en famille to an...

Not so long ago I felt like I was waging my own ebook revolution. Having published my first novel as a Kindle book on Amazon last year, I f...