Casting Light upon the Shadow

  My most recent novel is Book 2 of 2 in the Tales of the Iclingas series, which began with Cometh the Hour and the story of Penda, the la...

Last week, on my way back from a research trip to York, I called in at Ripon, to visit the cathedral there, or rather more specifically, to ...

  A family featuring prominently in my writing, both fiction and nonfiction, is that of seventh-century Merewalh of the  Magonsæte , all of ...

  It's Women's History Month so it seemed appropriate to put together some stories about courageous women who most certainly did not...

We once again spent much of the year in lockdown but writerly things were still able to happen and, indeed, are planned (find out more at th...

A royal son, in defiance of his frail and useless father, released the king’s prisoner from jail and married her, before leading the kingdom...