April Fool

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April Fool’s Day – I love it! Although whoever decided to hold the G20 summit today was clearly having a laugh. In case you’re stuck for inspiration, I’ve decided to share a couple of my favourite pranks with you. They’re straight out of...

Things I Wish I’d Known When I Was Ten…

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Today is the tenth birthday of someone rather special (Happy Birthday Lucy!) and it got me thinking. When I was ten, I was living a carefree existence in Hong Kong, blissfully unaware of the convent boarding school that awaited me in rainy, grey England. I was a...

Man Killed by Komodo Dragon

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I read the news that a fruit picker on Komodo had been killed by the famous giant local lizards and felt one of those shivers of coincidence. Only two days ago, I was talking Komodo dragons with an expert in the field as part of my research for my top secret new...

Credit Without the Crunch

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Here’s an organisation the fat cat bankers would have done well to emulate: www.kiva.org Kiva is one of those brilliant ideas the Internet should be about. It’s an organisation that works with microloan foundations to provide small amounts to entrepreneurs...

Sex and the Author

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It’s a longstanding debate – does the sex of the author matter to the potential reader? Chris Ryan obviously thinks so. The former SAS hard man has brought out his latest book (a genre busting romance) under the pseudonym Molly Jackson which is doubly...