I’ve been away on my holidays. This gives me the chance to put up a picture of the town I went to, Josselin in Brittany. Among other t...

Admit it, you’re sick to death of Crimea. Writing a series set in one war has made me rather single-minded, and looking back over my ti...

‘I don’t like historical fiction,’ a friend said recently and, until a few years ago, I might well have agreed with him. I mean – what’s th...

Until very recently, I'd never shot a gun. I was rubbish, predictably, but I felt that I ought to have done so, at least once, ha...

As this is now the second half of August – the downward slope? -   my History Girl post is very much a “staycation” kind of piece. Besi...