I didn't make a conscious decision to begin writing Historical Fiction, but once I'd written Witch Child and its sequel, Sorceress...

The drive was always a kind of journey into the past. The road leads up and along a ridge of moorland, skirts the reservoir that sits like a...

Like a scent, places can be extremely evocative. The right place brings a story alive for me as nothing else can - but it's not always ...

So you're writing historical fiction. How do you recreate the past? There are many ways you can do it. Atmosphere, descriptions, clothe...

Mug House Riots London 1716 To begin with the last verse of Newgate’s Garland by Jonathan Gay written in 1724; in which all soci...

by Mary Hooper It took a while to get round to it, but once I’d done it, I wanted to do it again. Use a real person in my books, that i...

By Teresa Flavin Elizabeth Bird, who blogs for the excellent School Library Journal, recently wrote this entertaining post about the gr...