This month, we went on holiday to the Peak District. It’s a place I have always wanted to visit since watching Lizzie Bennet standing on...

We all want it. Not only for ourselves, but for those we love. Yet for many people, it seems to be as elusive as a unicorn. No matter how...

I imagine many people out there have sat in an English exam desperately searching for the allegories and hidden meaning in a piece of...

I had a picture in my head. A man is standing by my local stone bridge, his fingers woven through the chain link fence, peering into the...

I was out for coffee and cake with some friends today, and we got talking about books we read as children, especially for exams. I have...

It was Christmas 2016. I had been out of work for six months, and our finances were still looking good. I was approached by someone in my...

I am a great believer in giving to charity. I support several financially by standing order from my bank, but there are other ways of...

Since starting my writing journey in 2017, I have gradually added tools to my arsenal to help me grow and improve as both a writer and...

At some point in your writing career, you will come across this little nugget of wisdom. Attributed but not traced to Mark Twain, this...

Following on from my top ten books and films comes the next wonderful list! You’ve probably done this before. If you could invite...

The world is a mess. Headlines in the news and on social media scream of war, hatred, pain, and loss. Our children are fearful for the...

I love New Year. It’s a time when we can say goodbye to the past, whether it was filled with success and blessing, or failure and...

I am currently writing my next series, a quadrilogy based on Norse mythology. If everything goes to plan, the first book will be...

One of the themes many stories utilise is that of death, be it a well-deserved ending for an obnoxious villain, a tragic backstory for...

Like most of us, I have a love/hate relationship with social media. As a published author, I am expected to have several accounts,...

Today, I want to take some time to reflect on the big news stories of the past couple of weeks. People are up in arms about Algerian...

A hundred people can read a book and give a hundred responses ranging from “That was awful, and I didn’t bother finishing” to “That was...

You have probably never heard of Bezalel and Oholiab, but I have been thinking a lot about them recently. They appear once in the Bible,...

There was a time, not so long ago, when I would read to the end of a book regardless of whether I liked it or not. This is especially...

When I turned thirty, I went on a crying jag. As far as I was concerned, the best of my years were behind me and there was nothing to...