So why in the name of Merlin’s saggy left —” “Don’t talk to your mother like that.

I had an old typewriter and a big idea.

Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.

I'm not writing to make anyone's children feel safe.

Finding out what you’re good at, and doing it to the best of your ability, is the route to self-respect.

At fourteen, you really do start realising that the world is not a safe and protected place or not always.

I would never recommend my novel as a parenting guide. But we happen to live at a very hectic and hurried time, and I believe that many parents are too wrapped up in themselves.