March can't seem to decide if it's coming in like a lion or a lamb. While it makes up its mind, I want to fill you in a bit on what...

I’ve always been interested in early modern female writers. Katherine Parr, the heroine of of my first novel,  Queen’s Gambit , was one ...

We all know that you can wait a hour for a bus and then three come along at once, but this seems to also apply to characters in historical n...

It is no secret that I'm a dog lover and a recent research trip to look at Dutch art offered up a multitude of painted canines which bro...

From Cleeve Hill in the Cotswolds you can look down and see Sudeley Castle, close to the small town of Winchcombe. Sudeley has been res...

I thought I’d run out of things to say about Wolf Hall when my attention was drawn to Laura Miller’s article in Salon, in which she respon...

Twitter Trolls are a twenty-first century phenomenon and one that exposes the darkness that lurks beneath the surface of society. I am alway...

As March is National Women’s History Month , celebrating women of character, courage and commitment and also coincides with the paperback...