This is a slightly different blog this month, a picking-all-your-brains exercise if you will. I've been asked to be the historical ficti...

Last month’s blog looked at the literary and historical associations of the route along which the Meon Valley Railway  once ran, many of wh...

I t hangs in a glass case in dimmed lighting: a small phallus carved in white with wings made from bronze. The label informs m...

I've got a new book coming out on November 1st. With any luck, I'll be asked to talk about it and will have to answer that mo...

Some time ago, visiting Manchester for the first time, I “discovered” what seemed an impressive square. An enormous Victorian go...