I hope that You forgot the cranberry sauce You can’t all fit round the table Someone coughs their way through Jingle Bells ...

First all the books in these awards were read by me in 2023 but could have been published at any time up to and including 2022 (with the...

'The innocence of youth had taken early departure. His eyes surveying for opportunity. Accusations met with beseeching eyes. The guilt...

1. We may keep strange hours. We can be either up at dawn, awake till the early hours or waking up at intervals to get the writing done....

Authors are always banging on about reviews. They shout on social media, in their newsletters, on their website, requests at the end of...

There was a glow in the forest. The mist changing colour, every colour of the rainbow in turn. Neve watched as the cloaks of her parents...

This was the perfect night for magic. The mist thick enough to deter intruders, clear enough for the creatures of the forest to take...

My Uncle George was known in the family as ‘The fix it man’. Whenever anything broke in our house my mam would send me along to Uncle...

‘Clarissa, come along dear, grandma is here and we’re about to have tea.’ Clarissa didn’t hear. She was sat in the meadow dreaming of the...

Nine women in black. The veils covering their faces masking the pain. There was an eerie stillness on the hill as the coffins were...