For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.

When you're writing, you're making decisions about compression and the shape of a life, which are very similar to how we experience our inner consciousness.

For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.

Many of us have had that experience of being in love with someone and then they end up being your enemy and there's a stranger in your bed.

The fight against unfair scheduling is like the fight for a regulated work day - it's people fighting for reasonable conditions at work and to have a life, so you can have some leisure.

Eleanor Marx was her father's first biographer. All subsequent biographies of Karl Marx, and most of Engels, draw on her work as their primary sources for the family history, often without knowing it. I think if she'd been a son, she would have been referenced more.

The trade unions in the UK are campaigning around zero-hours contracts, which isn't about feminism, but it's a feminist issue. Women are affected by zero-hours contracts, and the recession has and is affecting women more than men.