I am often thanked by people for inventing the term traditionally built. The people who give me thanks for this are often traditionally built themselves.

At night we are all strangers, even to ourselves.

Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I enjoy the conversations that women have.

I am often thanked by people for inventing the term traditionally built. The people who give me thanks for this are often traditionally built themselves.

But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?

Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom...

I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own.