You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental...
The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual...
There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit...
Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are...
The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer I walked...
My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old...
I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw...
Both my mum and dad were great readers and we would go every Saturday...
Sep-11 2001 revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through...
There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the...
Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is...
I mean the beauty of being a writer is it's not like being a swimmer. When...
I feel there should have been some recognition of the Spice Girls at this year's 25th anniversary. We flew the flag for Britain around the globe in the 1990s and we achieved a hell of a lot.
