Like Eliza, the heroine of Woman of a Certain Rage, I’ve found myself angrier in…
To celebrate PRIDE month and the paperback publication of his wonderfully uplifting novel The Secret Life…
It’s a good question, isn’t it? My novel After Dark explores what would happen if…
I like writing weird, complicated stories. I like reading them too. It’s ultimately why I’m…
Hannah, the heroine of my debut novel The Daughter, has been described by some as…
I love polyphonic fiction. I can say that now: I didn’t know until recently that…
I am rather an inadvertent crime fiction writer. Though I dearly love a thriller (my…
We were just finishing dinner when we heard the music. It was half past six,…
My tenth novel, A Village Secret, was inspired by some family history of my own.…
I learned to cook at university by the simple expedient of inviting people to dinner…
The thing is, I think Tolstoy almost had it right. Unhappy families are unique, yes,…
Writer and critic Cyril Connolly’s infamous pronouncement, ‘There is no more sombre enemy of good…