Autumn Adventures
Starting in late August 2017 Alex and I will be walking the Way of St James beginning at our house in south west France and ending in...
How to write about spring?
Spring has arrived, at last, and I am witnessing the shift of season in the southern French Alps. As the snow has melted, I have gone for...
Myth & Magic
Here is my most recent article, published this month in Slightly Foxed: The Real Reader's Quarterly, Issue 52, Winter 2016. Slightly...
Writing a Personal Statement...
I have worked with students applying to university to study English for years. The Personal Statement is now a big part of the...
A Return to the Classics
I have found myself returning to the classics this year encouraged by former colleague and friend from St Paul’s Girls’ School, Dr Sarah...
Deep in the South
If anyone said to me the ‘Deep South’ of the United States when I was much younger, I imagined smoky sultry jazz joints and intense...
Owl
Just before Christmas, when we went back to France for a long weekend, we discovered that we had some squatters. As we opened the gates,...
A Ridiculously Wordy Review of my Winter Reads
Margaret Atwood, William Boyd, Rosamond Lehmann, Ray Mouton, Julia Heaberlin, Elizabeth George, Michael Connolly, Ruth Rendell, Ian...
English Heels/French Wellies
I am very lucky at the moment to have a foot in two different countries – one in England and one in France. The contrast is made...
My Summer Reading
I am varied reader, loving a combination of so-called literary fiction through to thrillers, detective novels and sci-fi. I am a great...
