The Age of Uncertainty

Thank God for the blogosphere. Last month I recommended several blogs, one of which was the excellent Bookseller Crow . Mr Crow found my re...

I was quite a sickly child and at ten, spent a year in an old-fashioned sanitorium. I don't remember it as a particularly distressing ti...

The good times are over. A life of poverty beckons. It's 'Goodbye Waitrose, hello Asda!' and as for going on holiday, forget it...

I've just finished my second John Christopher novel, The World in Winter , which was so compelling that I almost managed to read it in o...