It was always a magic moment having an Usborne book in my hands, and still is. Light and colourful, with exquisitely rendered pictures at...

During my student holidays I drove a van for an office supplies firm. One hot summer's day, to the sound of Paul Simon's Graceland, I...

It's all there in the pages. So if I wanted to write a book similar to one I admire, I should be be able to pick apart the magic,...

What flows from the nib of your pen or the tips of your fingers must be your first, clearest, unadulterated thoughts - right? Wrong. The...

Great ideas can come at you at any moment. They can, but for me they usually don't - they knock at my mind when I'm wandering around,...