Category: Blog

In the liberal West, short of rape, paedophilia or bestiality, sexual behaviour is beyond judgement. What is an averagely vanilla woman then to make of Bonnie Blue?

I went on a writing retreat to work on my dystopian YA novel. I was in heaven, and I did nothing.

I love this time of year, and not because I love tinsel and roast turkey. Universities close and employees are obliged to down their tools. There’s no option to mime minimal productivity over the three days at the absolute arse-end of the year for the sake of a couple of extra days’ leave later.

Before my hysterectomy, I was fit and active. I’d been exercising regularly—yoga, running, hillwalking—since my late teens. I even had visible stomach muscles.