I know it's not just me - a lot of people find old cemeteries beautiful and fascinating, so I thought I'd share these photos. This lovely...

I Tweeted about Wolpertingers last Thursday for Twitter's weekly #FolkloreThursday. They're cute little beasties from the alpine forests...

This is not a book review. I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed All the Murmuring Bones by Angela Slatter. "Long ago Miren O'Malley's...

Re-reading Eowyn Ivey’s The Snow Child and remembering all over again why it’s one of my most favourite books. Just beautiful. ❄️...

I recently headed down the coast to Eden for a little weekend away with the fam. Eden is famous for its whaling history, and while we...

‘Hansel & Gretel’ is, in my opinion, the most disturbing of the Grimm’s fairy tales. Brother and sister Hansel and Gretel, abandoned by...

Sussex, 1912. In a churchyard, villagers gather on the night when the ghosts of those who will die in the coming year are thought to be...

"Alaska, 1885. Colonel Allen Forrester receives the commission of a lifetime when he is charged to navigate Alaska's hitherto impassable...

The Devil in the Marshalsea is Antonia Hodgson’s first novel and the winner of the 2014 CWA Historical Dagger Award. A thriller set in...

'Are you the writer? You look like a writer.' He was a big guy, solid and broad, with dusty workboots and shoulders that would have...

Broadway Tower sits above the village (and hill) of the same name in the oh-so-pretty Cotswolds. It came to be in 1798 when Lady...

It's a writer's bucket list staple, isn't it? A visit to Stratford-upon-Avon, birthplace of William Shakespeare. It was certainly on...

Most people connect Jane Austen with Bath, but Chawton is just as important. For one, Jane was born in Hampshire, in a place called...

This is not a book review.... but I really, really loved Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgeraldby Therese Anne Fowler. I loved so much about it...