Conjure an image of an Arabian Souq, and one thinks of maze-like alleys lined with shops selling incense, spices and gleaming display...

To be clear, I don’t think I’d have a career as a writer at all if it weren’t for the invention of the word processor. I can’t spell, a...

It’s astonishing what you discover when you are doing the research for a novel. In my first 17 th century Fenland novel, Flood , Tom Benni...

It’s summer, it’s hot, and I’m up to my eyes in researching the next book… Happily, it doesn’t always have to be the heavy stuff. To...

I've always been fascinated by Wunderkammer, Cabinets of Curiosities, things in boxes, the stranger the better, so I was delighted to h...

I’m in that” trudging through a tangled story state” right now, so my mind isn’t up to too much precise history. Here’s today’s alterna...

So what is it that makes the Tudor period so endlessly fascinating to writers? Well... passion, treachery, adventure, a turbulent political ...