My Articles 

A poem inspired by the Hunting Dogs' Mosaic, Corinium Museum.

A tribute marking the centenary of Sabine Baring-Gould's death.

My debut novel

An amusing true story.

Imagine in the hubbub of a parallel contemporary London that a middle-aged woman, cryogenically frozen thirty years ago, were defrosted....

A poem inspired by Homer's Iliad.

An elegy for my Nan.

A rewriting of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in the style of Charles Perrault

Some tips for creating characters.

Some writers like to compose a Haiku every day. This lyrical Japanese verse form aims to describe a scene, object, or person in just...

A writer’s notebook is your new literary best friend. It should accompany you just about everywhere. Broadly speaking, a notebook should...

Grandad always wanted to work with animals. He grew up in east London, so when he left school aged 14, in 1944, he knew exactly the place...

Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard have bumped into each other in purgatory. Anne Boleyn: It's bloomin' typical, we're stuck here in this...

It was exactly a year ago. Mum had waded her way into my room early, too early for a Saturday. It was a bit of a battle as my dressing...