I’ll say this for Prince Albert of  Saxe-Coburg and Gotha : He was an enthusiast. Steam Power, engineering, plumbing, Scotland, Christmas tr...

Food memories can be some of our most vivid - I’m a Lancashire lass – I grew up in Wigan. We were definitely a meat, potatoes and veg family...

I wanted to write a sinister scene in which one character seems to have all the power. My story is set in 1848 and initially this scene was ...

For a writer of historical fiction, letters can be gold dust.  Three years ago, I wrote a local community play, Letters from the Front, to ...

The two main inspirations or story sparks for my first novel for young people, Black Powder, were a real life event – the infamous Gunpowder...

It’s Halloween week! As I happen to live in the eeriest, spookiest, foggiest and darkest part of the country - the Scottish Highlands - I...