My own favourite things in Palermo - and my fascination with Sicily.

During the last year, I have pitched to 52 literary agents and the few publishers I could find that are accepting direct submissions...

The Line 1978 There are some painters for whom one waits eagerly for a retrospective and for me Philip Guston is just one of those. Why do I find his work so intriguing? For a start, there is the colour pink, which features throughout his work – not a frilly, Barbie pink, but a salmon shade which fades from blood-red through to the palest blush, dominating a remarkable signature palette of cadmium red, greys, black and flashes of emerald green. Then there is the reassuringly, overtly...