‘Grief, bereavement, physical and mental illnesses had been taboo subjects in our farming family.’ When my little sister Tricia died by suicide four years ago a friend said: ‘Maybe you’ll write about this one…
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‘This is the story of Asia over the last forty years.’ We, The Survivors, is the story of Lee Hock Lye – known to friends and family as Ah Hock – a young man…
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‘Loss teaches us about one of the most enduring kinds of love.’ I am blessed by a child who came to me late in life, and I love this daughter of mine, who is…
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The heritage plays a big part, horses and horses racing have so long been part of the world’s culture – racing is happening in only slightly different forms in every corner of the globe…
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I wanted to try and catch some of the oddness of those who choose to devote their lives to sporting endeavour, to take an athlete’s life seriously. Because I’ve written a novel a about…
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What is it that we remember the most about our childhood? What is it that we remember the most about our childhood? I hear the same answers so often now. “I remember disappearing off…
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I began to wonder what would happen if I could simply reach out and take that story away from them I started studying bookbinding a few years ago, and I was immediately seduced by…
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I wanted my novel to convey the rottenness at the heart of selfish living, the complexity of ‘doing the right thing’, and the ties that bind family, themes that I think will always be…
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I wanted to ask ‘What if we lost the faculty that singularly makes us human?’ I’ve had a forty-five-year love affair with language, and I’m talking about language with a capital L: that amazing…
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Now, 200 years after the birth of Emily Brontë, forty years after that cassette tape, it feels fitting to be publishing this book In January 1978 Kate Bush released her debut single, Wuthering Heights.…