Witches are, in the perhaps unfortunate words of Grazia magazine, ‘hot right now’, both on screen and in books. Stacey Halls’ The Familia...

Islands, with their closed communities, their remoteness, their uniqueness, have a special place in an author’s heart. Sometimes they bec...

Last month you had a light post. This month you have a more solid one. This is because I want to talk about the effects the effects of ...

This month other History Girls are writing about favourite books. I did that recently, so I thought, to balance those posts, I’d give y...

Over the past two years, I’ve been reading memoirs from survivors of the Pacific War – that is, the Pacific theatre of the Second World War....