So last week saw a break in my usual novelist’s routine of onesie, animal husbandry, school runs and plot-related despair. I went to New York. I’ll just say that […] Read More

I don’t read enough. I’m aware that’s a ridiculous thing for a writer to say. But I can’t read in the day, and at night I’ve become one of those […] Read More

… but firstly I just had to post this: It was broadcast while I was on holiday, so I woke up one morning to an endless stream of tweets going: […] Read More

I’m amazed how long Marian Keyes’s books have been lumped into that derogatory catch-all “chicklit”. I can only assume most of the commentators who do so haven’t actually read her. […] Read More

  Are you an aspiring writer? Enter Marie-Claire magazine’s Inspire and Mentor competition and you may end up with me as your personal tutor. This will involve lots of chatting, […] Read More

So there have been a few unexpectedly good things that have come about as a result of Me Before You, and one of them has been the messages from readers. […] Read More

Most evenings I can be found on a sofa, with laptop on lap, cat/dog at feet and tweeting sarkily (BGT, The Voice) or overenthusiastically (Homeland, Mad Men) about the telly, […] Read More

of Me Before You’s moment in the sun (at least as far as the Richard and Judy Book Club is concerned). So I thought I’d put up my interview with […] Read More

I have a friend who says being an author is basically being paid to be disappointed once a year. There have been years when, I have to admit, I have […] Read More

I love broadsheets (I have to; one pays half my mortgage) but this weekend I read my way through the annual Best Books of 2011 features and found my jaw […] Read More