Diary of a Black Girl in Chianti is a semi-autobiographical novel based on a year I spent in the '70s teaching English in a school in Siena., while trying to cling on to a boyfriend fifty miles away in Florence . In this extract Luigi, the Italian PhD student, who leads the 'conversazioni' classes at university in England takes me to task for lack of 'participation' as I daydream about the boyfriend I'm about to join for a year in Italy . The novel is a work in progress Living in Florence...

Piazza della Santissima Annunziata, Florence,. Ospedale degli Innocenti viewed from the Loggia dei Serviti For a while in the early ‘70s...

I wrote what I believed was a considered article about the experience of being biracial for the Daily Mail’s ‘Femail’ section in November...