Here's a question for all authors out there. Do you ever struggle to remember the characters in your books? Especially the incidental characters, created on the hoof?

I have to confess that I do, particularly once the book is published and I've moved onto the next story. Unforgivable really,...

I've just spent a week in Florida and the trip involved quite a lot of driving - nearly 1000 miles in total. As ever, I was amazed at how huge the place is compared to England. When I got home, I did a little research and discovered that the Sunshine...

The idea of a techno-fix as a way to cool the planet caught my attention last week, after reading a story in the Guardian about geo-engineering.

The title of that Guardian piece, Geo-engineering: green versus greed in the race to cool the planet, took me back to...