Throughout history there have been many dangerous books. Sometimes books are labelled as ‘dangerous’ because they contain ideas that the aut...

Give me a stone castle and I’m happy! When I moved to Scotland in 1991, I was smitten with stone. It stirred something in me – the hulk...

Although Fablehouse is a book for 8 to 13-year-olds in the genre of magical adventure, with elements of Arthurian myth and legend, much of t...

Who discovered soap and when isn’t known, but 3,000 years ago the Sumerians in southern Mesopotamia (now Iraq) were using a soap solution ma...

The story of how a book comes into existence is often deeply rooted in its author’s life. For me that is particularly true of my book Operat...

The first holidays were religious festivals or holy days, which is of course where the word ‘holiday’ comes from.  In Britain, these were tr...

I grew up in a sea port (Hong Kong) on an island, so travelling by boat was a weekly part of my childhood. I’m still fascinated by rivers an...