Eglantyne Jebb  (1876-1928) This year is the 100th anniversary of the founding of Save the Children, one of Britain’s most notable cha...

On March 29th of this year, Tracy Chevalier herself wrote on this blog, all about how she researches her novels. It was a fascinating pie...

In early 1971, the telephone rang at our house at what my parents, who kept early hours, considered the ungodly hour of ten o'clock. My...

by Marie-Louise Jensen I'm delighted to be writing today about three of my favourite books for young people: Ann Turnbull's Quaker...

As the country gears up to an expensive celebration of sixty years of one monarch's reign, I would like to look back to an event tha...