Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

  This tale comes from John Masefield’s collection of sea stories   ‘ A Mainsail Haul ’, first published in 1905 when the author was only 26...

I’m delighted to welcome for the second time to my blog the author Shveta Thakrar, whose second YA novel The Dream Runners was published ...

  Probably the best-known enchanted sleeper after the Sleeping Beauty is Rip van Winkle. A lazybones living in the Catskill Mountains, he pr...