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Corduroy Land
In times of trouble, there’s nothing more comforting than a yummy read, and Alexander McCall Smith’s The Dog Who Came In From the Cold is just that (though I have to say typing all those capitals is pretty exhausting! From now on I’m calling it simply Dog).
I’m not sure how many installments there will be, [...]
Banking on it
29. September 2009
Eventually I had to fight myself out of the cosy embrace of the Dog Who Came In From the Cold and trudge to the Barclays &*$%£ Bank in the Village, to present myself in person to be chastised for forgetting my codes, my mother’s maiden name and my full postal address – and also to [...]
Continue reading...Load of bankers
28. September 2009
I’m settling down to read my next five chapters of The Dog Who Came In From the Cold, next to my cosy little fire, and right in front of my delectable alcove cupboards which are CLOSED and hiding the hideous telly. Things simply couldn’t be much better …….except, of course, that as ever, a vile [...]
Continue reading...Booked Up
21. September 2009
Very excited as I have been asked to join the Telegraph’s online book club. I started my journalistic career, oooh, 400 years ago, on the Peterborough column of the mighty Telegraph. The paper had just moved to Docklands but had one foot still very much in Fleet Street. My colleagues on Peterborough, although all in [...]
Continue reading...My new book and me, drawn by child two
My first novel, Hot Chocolate or Schokoherz, is coming out next March in German. Thank you to my lovely publisher Ullstein for bringing out the book.
11. October 2009
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