The Cursed Wife: Coming soon!
First glimpse of the cover for my new novel, The Cursed Wife, which will be published by Pan Macmillan on 8 March 2018 … Curses cannot be silenced Mary lives a contented life as […]
First glimpse of the cover for my new novel, The Cursed Wife, which will be published by Pan Macmillan on 8 March 2018 … Curses cannot be silenced Mary lives a contented life as […]
I’ve recently had a letter from the City of York Council about changes to the rubbish collection arrangements in my street. For a while we had the use of communal bins, but they have now […]
I’ve just been reading this extract from the Assize Court records: William Lamparde of Hadlow, indicted for felonious killing. By an inquisition held at Strood, 3rd September 1598, before Martin Cotes, coroner, on the body […]
When I’m not writing, or editing, or teaching, or going out for coffee, or planning a trip away or sitting in one of York’s many bars, all of which takes up a disproportionate amount […]
The last decades of the 16th century saw a sharp rise in indictments for witchcraft. In spite of some scepticism amongst the educated, a belief in the harmful power of sorcery was widespread at the […]
I was amused to read recently a story on the BBC about a dog accidentally shooting its master (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19630411). Coincidentally, I had just been looking through the Calendar of Assize Records for Kent in the […]
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