Journalism and Non-fiction

Contributor to: The Guardian, The Independent, New Statesman, New Scientist, Sunday Times, New Society, Times Literary Supplement, Times Higher Education Supplement, MsLexia, The Bookseller, New Internationalist, The Tablet, newbooks and others.

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Wages for Housework . (First published in the New Internationalist in 1988.)
"Strikers negotiating with employers know that, if they hold out for too much, scab labour will be found to replace them. An individual woman refusing to marry, live with, cook for, or become pregnant by, a man who will not agree to share domestic responsibilities, is on her own with the knowledge that he may find someone more pliable."

1984 Came And Went Based on a talk given at the University of Alcala, Spain in 2000, and first published in The Road From George Orwell: His achievement and Legacy edited by Alberto Lazaro. (Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang AG, 2001.)

Memoirs of a Faith Based Education "I had a faith-based education. The trouble was, I never knew which faith".

Smash Capitalism – But Not Yet?  “Fund managers are the people your Marxist study group has warned you about – the ones who move billions of pounds around the globe at the click of a mouse in a ceaseless search for profit. Some of that profit is your pension, and that of your workmates.”

The Nun’s True Story (first published in The Tablet, 2007)
Marie Louise Habets was the real woman behind the fictional Sister Luke played by Audrey Hepburn in the Fred Zinneman film The Nun’s Story.
Kathryn Hulme was her friend and partner who told her story.

Review of The Twilight Hour by Elizabeth Wilson

Review of The Daphne du Maurier Companion edited by Helen Taylor

Review of Mrs Woolf and the Servants by Alison Light

Interview with Sue Townsend, first published in newbooks, December 2007

Interview with Gyles Brandreth, first published in newbooks, February 2008

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