Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

  This is our apple tree,  so laden with fruit this year that a massive branch actually cracked in the wind one night and broke off  under t...

A guest post by Gwyneth Jones I’ve always been attracted to fairytales. I knew I was a storyteller long before I knew I’d be a writer: I too...

My husband's Uncle Bill Dilger was a watch and clockmaker-cum-repairer, and his workshop, a small back room in his Victorian Manchester...

I once read, I think in an essay by C.S. Lewis – that to have weird or unusual protagonists in a fantasy world was gilding the lily. Simply ...

This is a post I wrote a few months before my mother died, nine years ago now. It was (and is) a heartfelt one. It's Mothering Sunday...

  RIVER VOICES   As I walked down by the river Close by the sounding sea, Up rose three water maidens Who stretched white arms to ...

'An Incident at the Battle of Culloden' by David Morier, oil on canvas.   This post first appeared on The History Girls blo...