Off the Pitch: How Sport Took Over My Life (2009) Children's books The Girl's Like Spaghetti: Why, You Can't Manage Without Apostrophes! (2007) Twenty-Odd Ducks: Why, Every Punctuation Mark Counts (2008) Collections and published scripts A Certain Age: Twelve Monologues From the Classic Radio Series – Profile Books (2007) Giving Up the Ghost – BBC Radio 4 (2008) Selected radio series Acropolis Now – set in Ancient Greece (2000–2002) A Certain Age (BBC Audio Collection, two vols.) – BBC Audiobooks (2005, 2007) , Inspector Steine – set in a 1950s English police station (2007–2013) Gossip from the Garden Pond (2014) Rumblings from the Rafters (2016) This list excludes standalone plays. References External links 1955 births Living people English journalists English non-fiction writers English dramatists and playwrights 20th-century English novelists 21st-century English novelists English radio writers Women radio writers People from Kingston upon Thames Alumni of University College London Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Writers of style guides People educated at the Tiffin Girls' School