Winterson has her own unmistakeable voice, tuned to express her obsessional preoccupation with sexual passion raised to the power of revealed religio….

The facts of life are to the biographer what the text of a novel is to the critic..

Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough. Too ….

There's no greater bliss in life than when the plumber eventually comes to unblock your drains. No writer can give that sort of pleasure..