Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

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

Persephone as throned goddess of the underworld The Greek myth of Persephone has often been retold as a sweet and charming little s...

I went into ‘The Last Bookshop’ in Oxford the other day, which sells what I assume (?) are remaindered books, since everything in the s...

The Sleeping Beauty: Rene Cloke It’s usual for collections of fairytales to include pictures.   When I was very small, the ...