Wahey, Remember Remember is now officially launched – a mere three months after publication date. Last week, as I wrote my blog, you may remember, I was cooking wee delicacies for the nibbles (the very ones pictured below), and juggling several other competing demands (humdrum domestic as well as professional ones), wondering if I’d ever [...]
Phew. What a week! We might have seen history in the making but I for one will be devoutly thankful when the dust settles from this jolly old general election. And rest assured, I have absolutely no intention of extending the agony here. But I do want to talk about one particular politician, Independent MSP [...]
I’ve just this evening returned home after a rather horrible couple of weeks, so forgive me if this time my blog is more serious than you have come to expect. In my novel, Right to Die, Adam O’Neill is a young journalist with a bright future when he is diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease. He’s [...]
What a week since I last posted a blog! The news has been a positive playground for medical ethicists!! IVF clinics reported to be destroying embryos with minor conditions; a ‘genetic breakthrough’ which could help treatments for breast cancer to be tailored to individual need; a mother who forced her son to fake illness being [...]
The subject of suicide (assisted or otherwise) just won’t – pardon the pun – lie down and die. Even in a week where I’ve discovered internet sites devoted to book reviews, (eg. www.dovegreyreader.co.uk and www.meandmybigmouth.typepad.com) had a phonecall out of the blue from Angela Rippon’s agent, and had a big breakthrough for the next book, [...]
Serious week. Calls for a serious blog. Especially from the author of Right to Die. Because assisted suicide hit the headlines again this week, big time, and some of my readers have contacted me about it. Prompting me to offer a couple of comments. First the Royal College of Nursing officially withdrew its opposition to [...]
It’s not every day that I receive an envelope bearing the House of Lords crest. So perhaps I can be forgiven for tearing it open casually without noticing – and ruining the envelope in the process! But anyway it was the contents that prompt me to tell you about the experience, not the crest. A [...]
I’ve been quite overwhelmed by the response to my new blog. Many thanks to all of you who have so generously commented. Writing can be a lonely occupation and it’s reassuring to know there are real people out there who read and who care. I even had one email this week from someone in Canada [...]