The Storyteller's Daughter is out in the world! My story of history, mystery, romance and magic is available in ebook, paperback, audiobook and hardback, worldwide. Please share this to help it fly.

This is an extraordinary, heartbreaking piece of writing. And as a river-dweller whose house is on stilts, nightmare-inducing.

Every 'embarrassing' mother of a teenager is just a middle aged woman who's finally decided she doesn't care what anyone thinks, isn't she? And isn't that wonderful.

The narrator of the audiobook for my next novel The House on the Cliff, the brilliant Lucy Scott (no relation) has emailed to tell me how much she's loving reading it. This is a real compliment coming from such a wonderful actress. Looking forward to sharing the cover soon!.

RT @cakesthebrain: I’d laugh if I wasn’t crying. (From the new Private Eye.)

After my daughter's C-section. They had tried and failed to give me a spinal anaesthetic so when they gave oxytocin afterwards, causing the womb to contract (to minimise the risk of bleeding), without anaesthesia after major abdominal surgery. It hurt. A lot.

I love it when readers send me pics of them reading my books on holiday. This is The Storyteller's Daughter in the Croatian sunshine 🌞."Unputdownable," says my lovely reader Jo.

I will never forget it. A city with no public transport for a day; people walking instead, clinging to each other. Sending love and prayers to everyone who was affected by the horrors on that day.

next few days as a runner, meeting guests at the door and bringing them to the studio. I met politicians, emergency workers and survivors. I watched as the first footage came in and the newsroom tried to work out the scale of what had happened, and how to report it.

7/7/05 was my very first day at what was then BBC News 24. As I drove in, I heard reports of a power surge on the tube. By the time I'd got to Television Centre, the full horror was becoming apparent, and my training had been cancelled. Unable to use the systems yet, I spent the.

I hope @chloehadj makes loads of money from a book about the book 😃.

This is why we need journalists. Staff journalists with proper money behind them to investigate things. Not influencers looking for advertising revenue, but journalists with legal depts behind them who can back them up on this stuff. Brilliant work.

Really good investigation by the Observer. The real Salt Path: how the couple behind a bestseller left a trail of debt and deceit

Influencers and beauty industry bigwigs who have convinced tween girls that they need 'skincare' for their perfect, beautiful skin need to ask themselves some serious questions.

Now this is AI usage I can definitely get behind:

When your audiobook narrator emails you to tell you how much she's enjoying reading your book.

I was at a (non-publishing) party yesterday, and someone told me they knew someone who'd signed a £5m book deal. I mean. this can't be a thing? Surely?.

(I bet every English-speaking woman of a certain age has screamed that lyric out loud at least once.).

Catching up with the Alanis Morrissette set at #Glastonbury. She was the soundtrack to my teenage angst, and wow, both she and the songs have not lost any of their power. "And every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back, I hope you feel it. ".

I've just spotted that the UK paperback of The Storyteller's Daughter is currently discounted at just £9.99 on Amazon. Worth buying now if you have it on your wishlist or intend to give it as a present (it's usually £12.99.).

RT @admcollingwood: People are asking what the British equivalent of the American dream is. It is to own a little plot of Britain that yo….