Well, I finally did it. I finished War and Peace! I first tried to read it when I was sixteen.…
‘Oh God, I’m so sorry. I really don’t know what happened.’ ‘Well, at least we won’t have to worry about…
The man looks frantic, on the point of tears. ‘Sorry to bother you,’ he begins. ‘Did anyone hand in a…
‘We’ve decided to go for palliative care,’ my doctor informed me. ‘What? I don’t understand.’ She smiled sympathetically. ‘It means…
‘Pass down the jar of whole nutmegs,’ Grandma instructs me. She’s a bit on the short side. She grabs it…
He was a poet. That didn’t mean much. Not at all. Nobody cared about poets. Well, maybe back in Ancient…
This is the day I dread each year. The day when I tell my class about food in history. I’ve…
It feels so funny to be back in London after all these years, to be walking down Oxford Street again.…
He strode into the group with a swagger, flair, and a face cracked with wrinkles. He smiled. It was not…
‘Quick,’ Granny screamed from the window. ‘Get the hell over here.’ I put down my schoolbook and wandered across the…
