“i had a midlife crisis and wrote my f irst play now it’s been optioned by a production company.”

If you’d told my younger self that my 50s would be the decade I’d run three independent bookshops, put on huge author events with the likes of Michael Palin and Matt Haig, and win a FutureBook Award,

The countdown to Ranvir Singh’s 50th birthday next August has begun, only the next 18 months won’t be focused on party plans but building strength. “I’m looking more inward than outward for my 50th,”

Judy Blume’s Superfudge was in our tiny school library, and I wolfed it down at the age of eight. From then, I was side-by-side with all of Judy’s kids, right the way up to 17-year-old Katherine in Fo

I’ve made a lot of films about young people trying to figure out what the hell they’re doing in the world. Although I’m still wondering that myself. It’s so interesting looking back – I realised from

IT MAY BE 2026, BUT MANY HARD-WON RIGHTS FOR WOMEN ARE UNDER THREAT. WE ASK GROUNDBREAKING ACTIVISTS, STORYTELLERS AND A NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER HOW TO MAINTAIN HOPE AND EFFECT CHANGE, EVEN WHEN THE WAY FORWARD IS UNCLEAR

I’m a writer, not a write-off