When I set out to write a novel about a witch in the seventeenth century (choosing the time that a local witch, from Waltham St Lawrence, ...

The research demands of my second novel have required me to spend much of my time recently in fourteenth century birthing chambers . I have ...

Now, given that to see this post you must have access to the internet, I'm assuming you've all seen this. The latest optical illusi...

If you had lived in the Middle Ages and wanted an animal companion, what would you have chosen? A good deal depended on your gender and occ...

Something interesting I'm often asked in interviews is how I balance fact and fiction in my novels. And it's a very important balanc...

Last week, my friend Barbara and I went on a bit of a pilgrimage to visit this ancient tree. A wild pear ( Pyrus Pyraster ), the ancest...

R ight now, I am trying to work out how to write a particular scene in a piece of “Victorian” junior fiction. The scene involves electri...