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Please see below for a selection of my work: links to websites, PDFs or JPEGs - please click on article titles or page numbers to view and enlarge. From August 2006, articles are usually first page only.

New! What Katie Wore  Grazia, 6 July 2009. Just six months in, Whatkatiewore.com has become a cult fashion hit. Here we meet the most stylish woman (and the most romantic man) in the blogosphere.

Life Of The Graduate Mind  CAM, Easter Term 2009. What's it like to become a research student in Cambridge? Post-grads explain why spending more time in the library can be so rewarding.

 'I Lost nearly 10 Stone And Saved My Life' Sweet, July 2009. A chance visit to her GP changed Rebecca's life forever.

'We Survived Her Affair'  Sunday Times Style, 3 May 2009. One couple tell Olivia Gordon how therapy and hard work saved their marriage.

Inside The Mind Of The Married Woman  Observer Woman, 5 April 2009. What do women really think about wearing the little gold ring? Olivia Gordon asked five wives about sex, power and money.

 I'm A Bargain Bride And Proud Of It  Sunday Express, 5 April 2009. People are voicing their disgust at the greed of fat-cat bankers; isn't it time for brides to say they have had it with the wedding industry's money-spinners?

My Tenant Stole My Identity  PC World Magazine, March 2009.  Rachael didn't know her new friend was a serial fraudster inspired by The Talented Mr Ripley...

Tomorrow Transformed    CAM, Lent Term 2009. Whether it's cutting-edge research on medieval fishguts or life-changing breakthroughs in medical science, Cambridge academics are changing our world. This feature profiles of a selection of them.

Addicted to Trash TV    Sunday Times Style, 28 December 2008. Can't get enough of those glossy American shows that combine beauty and bitchiness? You're not alone...

What's Sex Really Like When You're Older? Sunday Times Style, 30 November 2008. Six 60-80-somethings speak about their love-lives.

Dancing Changed My Life  Woman's Own, Christmas issue 2008. The stories of three women for whom dancing changed everything - from finding love to losing weight to helping through cancer.

Don't Mess With This Eco-Warrior  The Guardian, 10 September 2008. It might be a featherweight, but the Environmental Investigation Agency packs a big punch when it comes to environmental crimes.

The Rise Of The Groomzilla  Sunday Express, 24 August 2008. No longer happy to leave it all to their bride, a certain type of groom has an opinion on everything from cakes to colour schemes. As a certified bridezilla, I wanted to see how the other half live...

 Where There's A Will, There's A War  The Telegraph, 20 August 2008. High property prices and fragmented families have led to a boom in inheritance disputes - but the strife is often less about money than wounded feelings, says Olivia Gordon

Our Lives Changed On A Sunlounger   Red, August 2008. Syndicated to the Express, July 10 2008. We've all spent holidays horizontal by a pool, daydreaming of a whole new life. But how many of us really do it when we get back to reality? Meet five women who actually tanned AND transformed.

Salons Boom As Girls Yearn To Grow Up Fast  The Observer (news pages), 15 June 2008. Girls as young as six are wanting facials and manicires, and one child-only salon is now open - with dolls and DVDs and well as copies of Vogue. But some parents worry where the trend may be heading. Special report.

      Does The Camera Really Never Lie? Woman's Own, 9 June 2008. We put celeb body language expert Judi James to the test with both real couples and celebrities - could she analyse their relationship from just one picture?

I Had 17 Different Personalities  Woman's Own, 19 May 2008. Interview with Karen Overhill, whose fascinating story is told in A Life in Pieces by Richard K. Baer

Could I have Stopped The BBQ Killer?  Woman's Own, 5 May 2008.  Interview with Jayne Sterne, author of Destroyed

 You Got Me Working Day and Night  Sunday Times Style, 20 April 2008. I interviewed a director, a PR executive and an assistant for the case studies accompanying this feature by Fay Weldon on why modern women work so hard.

The Mother Of All Agony Aunts   Red, April 2008. Your teenage self may not have believed it but, sometimes, mums really do know best. Four women share the maternal words of wisdom that changed their lives. Four-page feature including an inspiring interview with Sam Roddick.

 I Gave My Adopted Daughter Back  Woman's Own, 7 April 2008. The story of Melanie Allen, author of The Trouble With Alex.

 Are You Too Close To Your Best Friend?  Sunday Times Style, 10 February 2008. Some women have an intensity to their friendship that borders on the bizarre. Olivia Gordon talks to the women who write each other poems, describe each other as twins, talk in code - and even 'marry'.

'He's Old Enough To Be My Grandad'  Woman's Own, 11 February 2008.  While most of us dream of a toyboy, Nikki Heydon, 33, loves being with a man 38 years older...

Love Against the Odds  Style, Sunday Times, 9 December 2007. Ever fallen for somebody totally unsuitable? Olivia Gordon finds out how the most extraordinary relationships can work

'I Checked into Rehab at 22'  NW, July 2007. The true life story of Selina, who found early-20s meltdowns were not just for fast-living stars like Britney.

Justice for Rape Victims: The Update  NW, June 2007. Following NW's campaign, the police invited the mag to their forensic science HQ to tell us about the new ways they handle rape cases. We asked a drug rape survivor if she thinks any of the initiatives will make a difference.

I Bought a New Body...Would you? NW, June 2007. Warning: This feature's not for the faint-hearted. The body blog of Pamela, who had more than £10,000 worth of plastic surgery to completely transform her appearance.

Never Mind the Gap   Stella (Sunday Telegraph magazine), 29 April 2007. As more and more women take up with much younger men, Olivia Gordon investigates the rise of 'down-dating'.

 Living With a Real Size Zero   Observer Woman, March 2007. The struggle with anorexia is a long way from the glamour of catwalks, fashion glossies and the latest diet. Two men talk about the women they love for whom 'thin' is a constant state of mind.

What Makes These Women So Special? Mothers who Triumph Against the Odds. SHE, March 2007. Olivia Gordon meets three very special mothers. SHE's editor Sian Rees says in her Editor's Letter for the issue: 'Life, for most women, is always slightly manic - with never enough hours in the day, what with the day-to-day job of working and running a family. So I read the article 'What Makes These Women So Special? with silent admiration, because what makes them so amazing is not just the fact that they're loving, busy, working mothers, but that one is deaf, another blind and the third a paraplegic wheelchair user. It takes something as inspiring as that to make you realise how lucky you are...'

The Big Debate: Rape. New Woman, March 2007. Five page campaigning feature raising awareness about the 5% conviction rape for rape and the disturbing lack of public and legal understanding about consent. Reporting on six rape survivors' stories. Scan coming soon.

The Big Debate: Abortion. New Woman, February 2007. In-house editing and writing for this 7-page special feature on the abortion debate.

Ex Files   Observer Woman, December 2006. He wanted love, she wanted a life...

What I Know Now   SHE, November 2006. The love story of writers Harry and Nuala Bingham, whose partnership is both romantic and creative.

Tongue Tied    Real People, 28 September 2006.

I Risked It All to Cuddle My Baby   Real People, 10 August 2006. I have also done several other Real People true life features - too many to put all on my site.

The Ex Files    Observer Woman, July 2006. He loved his toys too much; she yearned for a bit of predictability...

For The Love of Anthony   Woman's Own, 10 July 2006.

After her son died in the 7 July bombings, one woman went on TV to make an impassioned plea against terrorism that no-one will forget. First magazine exclusive interview with Marie Fatayi-Williams.

Making Saints from Sinners  REAL, 23 June 2006. The roots of criminal behaviour often start when children are young. But can Britain's most at risk and socially excluded youngsters be turned away from a life of crime? REAL meets the charities doing just that...

Prey Turn Predator   REAL, 26 May 2006. As the UK launches a new online child abuse protection authority, REAL speaks to Shy Keenan, a child abuse survivor who's turning technology against those who abuse it.

Domestic Slavery    REAL, 28 April 2006. Behind closed doors in the UK, women are being forced into domestic slavery.

Be My Baby   REAL, 31 March 2006. You don't have to be married, healthy and heterosexual to adopt. REAL looks at the impact of fresh adoption laws and meets three new families.

Ready for forgiveness?   REAL, 17 March 2006. REAL talks to two victims of crime - and an ex-criminal - to ask if confrontation is the cure.

Growing Old Disgracefully   REAL, 17 February 2006. Are your parents in safe hands? REAL uncovers some shocking truths - including a whistleblower's report from a care home worker so appalled by what she saw that she quit her job.

The Ex Files   Observer Woman, 12 February 2006. How a daughter's trampoline lessons triggered a marriage break-up.

Fab Flab     REAL, 3 February 2006. Fed up with being labelled lazy and gluttonous, big women are fighting back. REAL investigates the latest fashion hitting our shores - size acceptance.

It's a Dog's Life     REAL, 20 January 2006. Reports of animal cruelty are rocketing in the UK and, until the laws are changed, there is little that authorities can do to prevent suffering or punish offenders. The RSPCA gave me exclusive access to the working life of one of its inspectors fighting for justice. STOP PRESS: 12 Feb - Hundreds if not thousands of REAL/RSPCA reader petitions flooded into the REAL office after this feature was published, cheering me with the realisation that there are a lot of really good people out there in this country - we're not all selfish and superficial as one can start to believe after too long reading the papers. It's a reminder to me too of what a single feature can do.

Daddy Cool  REAL, 9 December 2005. The advent of the 'home dad' is upon us - but would you let your husband stay home while you were the breadwinner? Get the verdict from couples who have tried it.

The Biggest Loser   REAL, 25 November 2005 . The brave true-life story of Nadine, for whom baring her body in a swimsuit on TV was the only way she could force herself to lose weight.

Up to Date   REAL, 28 October 2005. This dating makeover feature was one of the most exhausting but fun articles I have ever worked on. I arranged a clothes, hair, beauty and dating makeover for one lucky young woman and followed her as she went out in the dating scene. I took many of the pictures too.

Backstage at Miss England   REAL, 14 October 2005. Bikinis, bitching and Slimfast? I followed contestant Miss East Anglia, Sarah Green, behind the scenes to find out what really goes on... I also snapped about half of the photos.

The Right to Fight   REAL, 2 September 2005. The shocking prejudice and disgust faced by many disabled parents exposed. The tragic real life stories of an Essex couple with learning disabilities whose children were taken away from them, and Caroline, who was told she was irresponsible for having a child because she has cerebral palsy.    

Hung, Cut and Branded    REAL, 19 August 2005. I investigated the gory body modification scene to find out just why people scar their bodies  - and how they cope with the pain. Featuring the story of a human tiger. Warning: some pictures may shock!

Women and the Animal Rights War     REAL,  5 August 2005. Two women - one a target of animal rights extremism who lives in terror, and the other an activist behind one of the world's most daring animal rights groups - reveal secret stories from the frontline of an irreconcilable battle.

Left Scarred by Schizophrenia   REAL, 22 July 2005. Torn between a loved one being locked away or left to their own devices, thousands of families face lives of helplessness and despair. A mother and a sister tell two heartbreaking stories.

Snob or Yob?   REAL, 8 July 2005. Does class still exist? In the year of the hoodie, five women tell their class stories: the woman who's proud to be a chav, the creator of the ChavScum website, the upper middle class cleaner, the girl bullied for being posh, and the woman who can make a lady of a commoner.

Don't Call Me Babe!   REAL, 24 June 2005. 'Tomboys' - women who refuse to follow the girly rules - face daily challenges, disbelief and, in some cases, appalling insults and abuse. I spoke to four women who live and work in a man's world.

Who's Looking After Your Child?    REAL, 27 May 2005. When you put your child into someone else's hands, how do you know you can trust the carer?

School Series Sails Away    The Bookseller London Book Fair Daily, 14 March 2005. A New Zealand literacy programme aims to make an impact in the UK market, Olivia Gordon writes.

The Ultimate Publishing Library   The Bookseller London Book Fair Daily, 14 March 2005. Logos has drawn up an elite list of titles for everyone in publishing to appreciate, Olivia Gordon reports.

Some Graphic Examples    The Bookseller London Book Fair Daily, 13 March 2005. Today's Superheroes to Manga seminar will illustrate ways into a booming market, Olivia Gordon reports.

One Night of Ecstasy  YOU magazine (big South African weekly), 16 December 2004. It was a cool life with cool friends... This edited extract from my book, The Agony of Ecstasy, was also translated into Afrikaans to feature in YOU's sister mag, Huisgenoot.

How Many Es in Depression?  The Mail on Sunday YOU magazine, 9 May 2004. An edited extract from my book.

It Can Happen to Anyone  Jewish Chronicle, 7 May 2004 (p 1 , 2 , 3 ). Jews and drugs don't mix, do they?  I wrote this 'Jewish-angle' feature to coincide with the publication of my book.

My Agony of Ecstasy    Evening Standard, 30 September 2002. My book was commissioned on the strength of this feature.