People's lives are in the care of the railways when they get on a train. The railways should remember that..

Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would ….

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our educati….

I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an ….

If you are going to make companies, corporations, actually responsible for the safety of other people's lives, then if they fail in their duty, the o….

The kind of response I hope for when I write my novels for children: to give them a chance to recognize something of their own feelings -- about them….

Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise in my chil….