Everyone knows that writers are also readers, and by writers I don't (for once) just  mean novelists. We need books, and we need more bo...

The other day I was talking to a writer friend about my current project, and she urged me to read a particular novel set in the same period,...

In Tuesday's post, "Outside the Frame" , A L Berridge was saying that while the physical presence that an old photograph recor...

It was 2007, and I was whizzing along the A64 in North Yorkshire because in the novel that wasn't yet A Secret Alchemy one of my narrat...