Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

From ‘The Western Island’ by Robin Flower, Clarendon Press, 1944 A tale of Tomàs O Crithin from the Great Blasket It is no...

by Nick Green Turn again, Whittington, Lord Mayor of London! Turn again, Whittington, thrice Mayor of London! Is ‘Dick Whit...

The Silver Cup from Dagberg Daas From Scandinavian Folklore, ed William Craigie, 1896 Here’s a version of an old tale I used in ...

by Penny Dolan All that was needed, so people said, was a single coin placed on a stone beside your tethered horse. Have ...

  Here is that very perfect knight Sir Philip Sidney, Elizabethan golden boy, courtier, soldier, poet and all-round  Renaissance m...

AFTER It's publication day!  And I'm doing a happy dance. Just take a look at this.   I can’t tell you how downrig...