Tomorrow is Roald Dahl Day! He still rates highly on lists of most popular children’s authors and I reckon he’s…
Recovering from both tuberculosis and the birth of her baby, Melanie Langdon is looking forward to the future. She has…
I wrote this poem last year for a competition. You had to write about an attraction in the Newark and…
Summer 1959. The Mental Health Act has become law. At a hospital for the criminally insane, Stella Raphael, the bored…
I have an Excel spreadsheet detailing 16 years of reading! Nerdy, right? But also very useful indeed. For example, I…
I joined Twitter on July 27th. The week after, I set up a WordPress blog. This was all relatively new…
A wayward cheerleading team get a new coach. Tough and smart, she’s poised to lead the team to success. But…
In the 1920s, a delightful charity fete was held in the gardens of a grand house. The event was reported…
There has been a lot of buzz about this book (Bloomsbury, 2018). Circe, witch-goddess of Greek myth, is an intriguing…
The year I got my A-level results, I began writing a novel. I was very into dystopias at the time.…