I once turned down an invitation to meet the subject of this biography (a girl or a riot; it all seems to blur into one these days) I...

F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said that the rich are different to you and me, but he may as well have been talking about the famous when...

I was born in that terrible year of nineteen-sixty-two after the build up to nuclear Armageddon, when my parents’ generation had decided...

I am orthodox, you are error strewn; they are deeply heretical. We have always striven for a way to mark ourselves as part of a...

Augustine always reminded me of a clever little, provincial, mummy’s boy, who I could almost picture revelling in his Carthaginian accent...

Back in those days of youth and vigour, when you could feel the earth tremble beneath your feet, I was a Dispatcher. To some, a giant...

'Here at the turn of a leaf a horseman is riding Through the space between one world And another.' I struggle in Welsh and am (I am told)...

I walk in out of the rain and shake myself like a dog in the porch before striding into the office flexing my hand and grimacing in pain...

Picture a film's opening credits, the panoramic birds-eye aerial sweep of a blisteringly hot late autumn day, with the sun beating out in...