If this post had a subtitle, it would be ‘ in which the Royal Mail almost sabotages my debut at the Venice Biennale of Art and I’m made to u...

Martin Gropius Bau, venetian friezes, Gestapo HQ, Berlin Wall death strip (Clockwise from top left) My new novel, Fables & Lies: A World...

Researching my novels has always led me to fall in love with places. Hever Castle was my first love affair with a place – a love affair that...

Sometime around about the year 220 CE a philosopher named Philostratus was getting annoyed with the days in which he was living. Now since I...

The Ayrshire Vendetta. It is 440 years since the Massacre of Annock. Though not an unusual occurrence in the lawlessness of Scotland in the ...

Bookshelves, like time capsules, give glimpses of past lives, stories and enthusiasms. Decluttering, I came across a title my mother inherit...