I am not, sadly, an amazing baker. If I were to appear on The Great British Bake-off: An Extra Slice,…
On hanging up my ‘Business Hat’
Twenty years ago next January, I started my editorial business. I sent a lot of letters/emails, set up my first…
The book I keep with me
What’s your oldest book? The one that’s so well thumbed, it’s on the brink of falling part (which is a…
On writing while pregnant: nine months, five novels
Twenty-thirteen. Spring. It was gloomy and dark, I remember, the day I went into my office and wrote the opening…
A little tour of Oxford, ‘city of dreaming spires’
My son has been determined to go to university since he was a little boy and I first began taking…
