Read my op ed from today’s Washington Post.    

A full-length podcast by the makers of award-winning series Criminal, This is Love investigates life’s most persistent mystery. Stories of...

For the last year we’ve been working on this huge mural, The Chiswick Timeline: A History in Art and Maps....

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She was the Nazis’ pin-up, the Aryan sex symbol whose films fired up the SS. In this previously unpublished interview,...

Brunhilde Pomsel, una de las secretarias de Josef Goebbels, murió el pasado 27 de enero. La entrevisté en 1991 para...

Brunhilde Pomsel , l’un des secrétaires de Josef Goebbels, est morte le 27 janvier à 106 ans. Je l’avais interviewée...

Here’s my article in this week’s London Review of Books. And here it is again, with added photos. Or you...

Never-before published interviews with those at the heart of Goebbels’ propaganda machine – the Nazi Marilyn Monroe, Lilli Marlene’s composer,...

Newly re-published as an e-book: Fallen Order: Intrigue, Heresy and Scandal in the Rome of Galileo and Caravaggio. “As racy and...

A video about our Apple Day.

Here’s a short video featuring the Salopian Garden. Through most of 2016 I was busy creating this garden from wasteland....

She flirted with Nazi officers but fell in love with the wrong man. A story of passion and difficult choices....

Groundbreaking Food Gardens: 73 Plans that will Change the Way You Grow Your Garden, edited by Niki Jabbour, a Canadian...

  Today has been a strange and beautiful gardening day after an unpromising start. My mother’s dog, Boris, whom we...

At the end of December, having some spare rhubarb crowns, we tiptoed out to the local library, where I had...

We’ve picked over a tonne of apples that would have gone to waste – and taught a load of kids...

At last a chance to find out what the Venice Biennale is all about.  Founded in 1895 and held on...

Hunting through the attic looking for something else I find a box of old documents from when I spent a while...

Visit to Birkbeck’s BA in Creative Writing class to talk to students about the process of researching creative non-fiction. Listen to...

Went up to Buckingham Palace to collect my MBE. It felt like the coldest day of the year, and I...

 Blue Lady Reading finally emerged from the kiln. Much bluer than I expected, and with a strange blue sock where...

The German edition of The Family Kitchen Garden – Mein Selbstversorger-Garten Monat für Monat – is a bestseller. Currently at...

Well, blow me down with a feather… I got an MBE in the New Year’s Honours. And there was me...

The Letter in the Bottle is dramatised as The Bottle on the Shore on BBC Radio 4’s afternoon play. John Taylor...

The Letter in the Bottle has been dramatised as A Bottle on the Shore by John Taylor of The Fiction...

Heard Rachel Johnson discussing her new novel on Radio 4.  Winter Games tells the loosely fictionalised story of her mother-in-law...

Ghost stories ebook. Unexplained: Spine-tingling tales about real places in Britain and Ireland. Ghosts, castles, stone circles, saints, hauntings. UneXplained,...

A strange email arrives: could I send my address so that a proper invitation to the Women of the Year...