Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

On the last weekend in May my husband and I went down to Dorset for a two-day holiday, the first for many months. It was a fraught tim...

I had the good fortune recently to be able to attend the fourth annual Tolkien lecture at Pembroke College, Oxford, delive...

The first witches I encountered were Macbeth's hags, and I was only five. That was because my mother, who was training to be a p...

I am not entirely sure why tiny flower fairies are currently regarded by so many adults with such dislike.   Believe me, they a...

On a bright spring day last year I was sitting on a bank beside a deep-cut track high up in the Brecon Beacons.   I’d walked far ...