With little spare money for books when I was growing up, I haunted the local library (using my mother's ticket) and begged everyone for...

Before I fell under the spell of Fitzwilliam Darcy, I was an avid admirer of C S Forrester's Horatio Hornblower. Still am, if the truth...

From time to time I like to include articles about books by writers other than myself, and the following is a piece by Tanya van Hasselt,...

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

My favourite writing places are coffee shops, and now we are allowed back inside... A couple of mornings a week, in normal times, I...

Inside The Foundling Museum, in London's Bloomsbury, hangs Hogarth's magnificent portrait of a generous-hearted man who should be far...

This book - recommended to me by a friend - took me on the tortuous journey that bee-keeper, Nuri, and his artist wife, Afra, are forced...