The first of my regular Friday book reviews. There'll be a mix of paperbacks and hardbacks, old and new, grown-ups and children's r...

Six weeks after leaving the House With No Name in friends' capable hands, I’m pining for my tumbledown farmhouse in the middle of rural...

The news that children are being taught how to be happy made me unutterably depressed. Lots of schools across the country (Wellington Colle...

Lauren Kate with two winged waiters. Image by Emma Davies. The party to celebrate the success of Lauren Kate’s mega-selling Fallen series...

Sport is like Marmite. You either love it or hate it. I won a running race at primary school once and reached the heady heights of the netb...

“If you want to write a novel, it’s never too late...” Those were the inspiring words from TV producer and novelist Daisy Goodwin when...