I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

Lindsay Doran goes round the table and introduces everyone - making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me.

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

My husband is here and I'd like to thank him, for many things, but first of all for pointing out that I had a big hole in my frock and then that my nipples were pointing in different directions. It's good to have an expert there to help you with that sort of thing.

But certainly in Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa, people don't really talk about sex and certainly religious leaders - some of them - up to now have been very unwilling to accept, for instance, the promotion of condom use

We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really

Without the ice, the earth will fall