Scribbling in the margins

The Viking Exhibition at the British Museum is a must see for anyone interested in or who, like myself, is researching the era. It is huge....

Last week I was in Iceland and whilst there took the opportunity to collect information about Viking ships for my third novel in The Daught...

On a recent trip to India I re-read M.M.Kaye's The Far Pavilions , a beautiful novel of romance and chivalry set in Afghanistan an...

Even in chilly late November a trip to Donegal in the west of Ireland is magical. The loughs and the coast, the valleys and the mountains h...

The Castle of Mystras Mystras is just over the Taygetos mountain from my summertime home near Kardamyli. It is situated only 6 km from ...