King’s Staith and The Edge of Dark
Today, pleasure boats line the King’s Staith in summer time, but in the 16th this was the main landing place for cargo vessels. The keelboats that plied up and down the Ouse to Hull tied […]
Today, pleasure boats line the King’s Staith in summer time, but in the 16th this was the main landing place for cargo vessels. The keelboats that plied up and down the Ouse to Hull tied […]
Although Jane is plain, her father is rich enough to buy her a fine husband, and she is married to Robert Holmwood. Robert is young and handsome and wealthy; Jane can hardly believe her luck. […]
When we first meet Jane, she is just twelve and living in her father’s house in St Andrewgate. Her mother is dead, and although Jane is nominally in charge of the household, she relies on […]
The Edge of Dark is the story of Jane, whose deathbed vow in 1569 sets her on twisting path of joy and deceit that takes her from the dark secrets of Holmwood House in York to […]
One of the oldest and most photographed streets in York, Stonegate has been one of the city’s key thoroughfares since Roman times, when York was known as Eboracum. As the Via Praetoria, Stonegate led from […]
Today, Lord Mayor’s Walk is a busy section of the Inner Ring Road, following the line of the city walls between Monk Bar and Gillygate, but before the 18th century this was a track known […]
My resolution for 2014 is to make some real progress on the edition of York’s Wardmote Court Book, that I have been working on for the past nine years. I finally got myself set up […]
The Memory of Midnight is out now and available at Amazon, Tesco and all good bookshops. Read an excerpt from the first chapter here: York, August 1561 She had to hide. ‘One … two […]
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