On 8 June, the BBC reported the sad news that US celebrity chef and television personality Anthony Bourdain had died as a result of suici...

Writing about old Japan, there are many words which are very difficult to translate. The architecture, customs, clothing, even hairstyles ar...

All historical novelists know to avoid the ‘wrong words’ – the little anachronisms that boot us into the wrong century will the speed o...

Last week my biography of Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granville, the first woman to work for Britain as a special agent in the Second W...