-->  Our July guest is another History Boy, John Guy, whose latest book is The Children of Henry Vlll. John Guy is an award-...

Blog followers may notice that I've changed my name. There's good reason for this.  I don't want children picking up my first ...

I am rather pressed. I am going away. Yippee! As a girl, I had one of those square flower presses with twiddly screws in the corners, and ...

Muizenburg Beach, South Africa 1950 My father was a lifesaver, a surfer and an amateur early photographer. In an old shoebox I discover...

There's a well-recognised phenomenon, written about by Simon Jenkins, that everyone looks back to a golden age, and that for most peop...

A few months ago a reader wrote to me to say that I mentioned sugar in one of my novels and she wondered how they had extracted sugar from s...

Eight people who I never knew, but they are crucial to me, and part of me; I carry bits of their bodies around with me. And there are other ...