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Features
Being Burgled
The Independent, September 2007
Fighting back against yobs
The Sunday Times
On suffering
The Sunday Times
On reading aloud
The Times
Civilisation - teaching history
How i became a surrendered wife
The Sunday Times
Come Clean
Sunday Times
How I became a cretin
The Independent
Catwoman & Kickass Heroines
Sunday Times
The Child Whisperer
The Guardian
Fraudulent Secretaries
Sunday Times
Cover your face
The Author
Wife Swap
Sunday Times column
A Christmas Dog
The Guardian
Organic Families
Sunday Times
Strong Heroines
Sunday Times Style magazine
Creating Characters
The Times
My Favourite Children's Book
Guardian
Children's Fiction: The New Satire
Sunday Times
How to drive a reviewer crazy
The Bookseller
Think pink: what chick-lit's favourite colour means
Daily Telegraph
Male Menopause
Sunday Times
Tyrants in Tuscany or house party hell
The Daily Telegraph, July 2003
The perfect holiday
read
The Times, August 2003
Holiday Hell
The Guardian, July 2003
Breath of life
The Evening Standard, July 2003
Updating Shakespeare
The Sunday Times, July 2003
Porn Free: is this what it takes to get boys reading?
The Sunday Times
Living with a writer
The Author
Against Grim-lit
Mslexia
The Italian Baby Myth
Prospect
Writing as another sex
The Author 2001
A Vicious Circle
  
Lectures
In defence of the domestic novel
Are we being served?
The elephant in the kitchen: women satirists
The uses of enchantment
A writers' life
 
Interviews
Monica Ali *
Doris Lessing *
Mark Haddon *
 
Book Reviews:
William Boyd, Restless

Autobiography, Michele Roberts

Alentejo Blue, Monica Ali
Alentejo Blue, Monica Ali
In The Company Of The Courtesan, Sarah Dunant
Divided Kingdom, Rupert Thomson
Old Filth, Jane Gardam
We need to talk about Kevin, Lionel Shriver
It So Happens, Pat Ferguson
Old Filth, Jane Gardam
Daphne du Maurier
Joan Barfoot, Luck
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Valerie Martin
Alexander McCall Smith
Michele Roberts
Rose Tremain
Joyce Carol Oates
David Lodge
Great Expectations
  Revisited
Beyond Black, Hilary Mantel

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