Back in 2009, I wrote my second novel, The Unseen . It was set in Berkshire during the long, hot summer of 1911, when England was poised ...

In May last year a friend of mine, and several hundred of her neighbours, were evacuated from their homes in the northern streets of Bath. ...

Yesterday, I finished reading Sebastian Barry's Days Without End , one of the books I was given for Christmas. It is simply breathtaking...

This close to Christmas, and newly returned from a short break to Prague for Christmas markets and beer, I had, of course, intended to wri...

A somewhat more personal blog than normal from me this month as I find myself in that slightly bewildered, exhausted/exhilarated state that ...

I recently travelled to Australia for the first time to visit my sister, who emigrated out to Melbourne earlier this year. It might have bee...

I hope you'll forgive a somewhat truncated post from me this month - it is holiday season, and by the time this goes live I shall be sun...

My first ever offering to the Cabinet of Curiosities are these very plain, rather dented pewter jugs: The largest stands at 10cm tall,...

I was recently blindsided somewhat by a journalist who'd come over to the UK from Germany to interview me, I thought, about my latest re...