I’m spending most of spring in Venice this year. For the first six weeks I carried the usual A6 spiral-bound notebook everywhere. I kept add...

  As an historical novelist, I encounter both joy and tribulation in researching via the internet. Surfing the web provides a plethora of re...

Death of an Emperor On the 18th of September in the year 96 CE, a young Imperial slave boy was attending to the shrine to the Lares, the god...

 Being interested in spies and all things spying, I just caught the end of this fascinating exhibition at The Imperial War Museum.  I first ...

The iconic portrait of Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth in her beetle-wing dress has been a favourite painting of mine for many, many years....