There is more to being published than I realised. Initially I thought it was a 'good thing' that Helen Meeke agreed to offer me a part in Warwick's new look history festival at the Lord Leycester hospital. Having been Warwick's Poet laureate 2009/10, I knew...

In 1914 working men and all women were not entitled to vote. Nonetheless, men responded to the call to volunteer to join the army and patriotically fight for their country. Prior to the declaration of war, women suffragettes and suffragists had been engaged in a...

When I woke up during last night, from the window I could see the silhouette of the oak at the bottom of our neighbour's garden. It loomed as a maze of branches, grey shadows between them. That image describes where I am this morning with my writing. Generally I'm...

Several years ago I began writing a novel in which a woman driving her daughter to a party crashed the car. Her daughter was killed and she disabled. A friend recommended that I read *Louise Doughty's Whatever You Love. It was an emotional read, beautifully written so...

    A Time for Peace is set, in part, during the Great Retreat from Serbia. The exodus of government, army and people from its country to escape the feared atrocities of its occupying force. On 21st January 1916, the first of the Serbian army landed on Vido,...

Before the Referendum, Jan Fortune, editor of Cinnamon Press wrote: 'Freedom of movement doesn't only give business a much expanded work force, but also brings European artists, thinkers and writers into our creative networks, whilst British artists and writers have...