It is tempting to dream of being magically transported into the past. Not, of course, to be Anne Boleyn, kneeling on the scaffold...

I first read The Daughter of Time as a teenager and it fueled a lifelong fascination with history and an interest in Shakespeare's...

In the spring of 2015 I wrote the following post in my writing group's blog (ninevoices.wordpress.com) and the sad demise of Hilary...

'At the first gesture of morning, flies began stirring. Inman's eyes and the long wound at his neck drew them, and the sound of their...

There are books that you want to read a second time and Jung Chang's Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China is one. I read the story soon...

Before reading this book I was already aware that Cecily Neville - granddaughter of John of Gaunt and the mistress who subsequently...