A day out in Edinburgh recently and walking through the Cowgate, I passed this sign. Few figures in sixteenth-century Scotland aroused str...

  The courtyard of the Irish Cultural Centre in Paris                                              In the above photo my husband, Michel Nol...

I’m looking forward to the launch, or rather relaunch, of my novel on June 30th. It was first published by Peter Owen in 2013. When I was wr...

  I am working on a novel about Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt.  It's contracted but as yet untitled.  Currently I am editing the ...

I recently had the opportunity to visit Charleston Farmhouse in East Sussex,  which was home to some members of the Bloomsbury group includi...

If this post had a subtitle, it would be ‘ in which the Royal Mail almost sabotages my debut at the Venice Biennale of Art and I’m made to u...

Martin Gropius Bau, venetian friezes, Gestapo HQ, Berlin Wall death strip (Clockwise from top left) My new novel, Fables & Lies: A World...