“A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people, literacy and youth justice: just look at the num...”

“I love the idea that magic and witchcraft and battles between supernatural creatures could be raging all around us but just out of our sight.”

“Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible li...”