I signed contracts for the Italian and French editions of my novels today. How surreal: someone is[…]

Woke up this morning itching to write, to move my story on. So, instead of nosing round[…]

I didn’t like what I wrote today. That’s the hardest thing. But I have to keep going,[…]

My new VAT certificate came through today, with my new trade classification of Artistic Creation. Beats the[…]

What I think is happening is: the fledgling blackbirds have just climbed out of the nest and[…]

To write for a couple of days. We are custodians of our friend Rosemary’s flat in London.[…]

Ullstein have bought CUCKOO and novel #2. This is all getting rather surreal.

Jessica Craig, United Agent’s Foreign Rights person emails me to say that the Italian publisher Garzanti read[…]

After two weeks of wall-to-wall editing, it’s my birthday, and I’m off to Soho House to have[…]

Leah, my editor and I had a long phone conversation today, where she outlined her comments on[…]