Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

  This is just to give notice that a week today, on Saturday 25th November at 8pm GMT, I'll be giving an online lecture for the wonderfu...

  Following my series of posts on 'Enchanted Sleep and Sleepers' (see links: #1 , #2 and #3 ), here is a sort of appendix: three t...

  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...