A few months ago I visited a military museum as part of my research for ‘Into the Valley of Death’. The wonderfully obliging curator showe...

I was more amused than outraged when those words "As if!" were used as a complete sentence by one of the characters in Downton Abb...

... are now posted up on the Competitions Page. Sorry for the delay in notifying you all. This has been because of illness, jetlag, snow d...

For me, Valentine's Day is not just a time for cards and flowers. I grew up in the West Midlands and every Valentine's Day, the lo...

I’ve just finished reading “Bleak House”,  almost hard on the heels of Tomalin’s biography of Charles Dickens. It is the first time I’ve re...

At the moment, I'm grappling with a structural problem in the book I'm writing. My story is set in World War Two, and most of it tak...

One might think that the first woman in English literature to make her living as a professional writer would be an icon for us all. She bl...