Thank you to all those of you who have supported my fundraising for Greenhouse. I've just been able to send them £349. I shall keep wearing the T-shirt to continue raising awareness of their excellent work.

I was sorry to learn of the death of John Fenton on 27th December 2008. I boycotted his lectures as a theology undergraduate at Durham in the 1970s, and wrote snide asides in my copy of his commentaries, because he was far too liberal for my then evangelical mindset. I think he would have understood. He used to say that theology couldn’t be taught to anyone under thirty, and I was certainly a case in point.

He was in Oxford when I moved there some fifteen years later, though our paths...

My new novel doubles will not be available from bookshops or online bookstores until early Spring, but you can buy a copy NOW through my website - just go to the Books section.

There’s millions of voices out there on the internet, what’s the point of adding another one? To launch a blog you need the inner confidence that your views and/or the details of your daily life are bound to be interesting just because they’re yours. I’ve always been much better at responding to invitations to share what I think (eg from publishers or event organisers) than at thrusting my views forward. And it’s not like I’ve been bombarded with cries of 'Annie, Annie, do us a blog!'. On the...