Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

The witches from children’s fiction who appeared in my last post were all wicked. But their authors wrote about them with humour, and...

Macbeth:  How now, you secret, black and midnight hags?  What is’t you do? Witches: A deed without a name. “Witch” is not a neut...

Please don't worry though!  Actually the bad news isn't so bad.  I'm about to take a break from this blog, but I fully inte...

Delia Sherman on a favourite time-travelling hero   Harding’s Luck  (1923) is not one of E. Nesbit’s better known ti...