As much as Ilook forward to coming home from holidays, I must admit there is a small part of me that wonders just how I will fit back in. Sometimes I wonder if I am a little like a rehabilitated wild animal, like a bird, after being nursed from...

I am very pleased to announce that I have been signed up for representation by New York literary agent Ethan Ellenberg. He will be advocating Surprise! for the international market(s) - and hopefully for other books of mine, at a later date! I shall...

This year I'm going to try and starta new habit, and that is to post up my favourite reads of the week on a Sunday. They may not necessarily have been published that week, but my eyes must have first seen them then. You're welcome to join in too!...

We arrived home this morning at 10.45am, and in the six hours since we've been unpacking. The children aredebating what's more exciting? The Christmas presents they've just received or the older ones they're rediscovering? So far, the older toys are...

One of the reasons I began twitteringwas to see if any of the threads of ordinary life I occasionally jotted down there could later on be turned into a longer, better observed essay/post here. 90 per cent of the time, no, they haven't, but I feel I...