Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

"The Book of Dreams and Ghosts" was written by Andrew Lang, famous for his many-coloured collections of fairy stories – The Red, T...

You remember, of course the riddle scene in ‘The Hobbit’, illustrated here by the amazing Alan Lee , where Bilbo Baggins pits his...

( Imported from my post yesterday on the Awfully Big Blog Adventure ) What do you do with old manuscripts?  I don’t mean crinkly old medie...

As I honoured Polly the puppy, a few weeks ago, with her ‘own’ post about dogs in books, I thought I should extend the same honour to my...

Walking through the fields with the puppy is just gorgeous in this sunny April weather. It's a physical relief to fill the lungs with w...

It’s 1601, and Will Shakespeare, always on the scent of ideas for a new play, comes across a couple of brilliantly deft street performers...

This is such a happy time of year when in spite of cold winds and hailshowers, you know that spring is coming, and nothing can hold her ba...