Unlike the other sample chapters from 'Bad Liver and a Broken Heart', this isn't a chapter disguised as a self-contained short story....

I love Christmas, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. At the coldest, darkest time of the year, I have no objections to eating lots of...

I like this time 'Between the Years', as it is called in Germany. I've also seen it called Twixtmas and Chrimbo Limbo. Nothing much...

This story marked a turning point in my life, although I didn't know that at the time of writing. So often, we don't realise that...

Reading over 'The Rosegarden', and remembering the process of writing it, it seems I needed around 17 years to get it to come together....

I love hearing stories. Here are a few which inspired me to write Lockdown. A physiotherapist I had back in London told me a story that...

It's nice to feel a bit of magic in everyday life, and when I was writing Books, Men and Money, I felt an element of magic. I was getting...