I don’t usually go for  alternate realities in my own reading, but my imagination has been captured over the years by the triumverate of The Lord of the Rings, Mervyn Peake’s superb Gormenghast trilogy and the Harry Potter books. I so much loved the...

I first started working as a corporate journalist 15 years ago, at one of South Africa’s big mining houses. It was as hierarchical as a company could be, with levels and grades and people who had corner offices and important art and people who worked...

I’m going to be absent for a brief while from Charlotte’s Web. Yet another school holiday, some paid freelance work, an impending maternal visit and the screams of pain from my unattended manuscript mean that I won’t be blogging for a bit. While I’m...

Being a girl was about aching for something that was always just out of reach. I existed in a state of longing for something indefinable, of permanent languid dissatisfaction. I was always stretching out, grabbing, then discarding what I had touched....

Married fifteen years on 1 October 2009 Tomorrow we celebrate 15 years of marriage and to celebrate, I’m breaking with the memoir theme to give you Fifteen Things I Love About My Husband. He: 1. Makes me laugh, and finds me funny. 2. Buys cleaning...