As an historical novelist, I encounter both joy and tribulation in researching via the internet. Surfing the web provides a plethora of re...

Queen Tanaquil As can be seen from the tragic stories of  Lucretia and Virginia , the women of early regal Rome gained fame when used as exe...

There are a large number of characters in the manuscript I’m working on and I tend to differentiate them by giving each a certain quali...

I've spent the last five days in bed, struck down by some kind of World Book Day induced bug, and don't think I've felt so bad ...

I’ve been reading a remarkable book by Elizabeth Wayland Barber and Paul T Barber, ‘When they Severed Earth from Sky: How the Human Mind Sha...