Author photo by Kate Gren L.J. MacWhirter was born just outside London, grew up in the North of England and today lives in Edinburgh ...

I must declare an interest. I based a character in my Stravaganza series on John Dee. William Dethridge is an Elizabethan alchemist, mathe...

If you love books and you enjoy a mystery the Voynich manuscript is right up your street. It’s a delicious little book, part herbal, part...

We are merely the stars’ tennis-balls, struck and bandied Which way please them.             John Webster (1580?-1625?), The Duchess of Ma...