Secluded Charm

I'd almost made it a rule not to review any book I read related to my Ph.D because I know Victorian fiction can be... stale, shall we sa...

It's one of the most surprising things in my writing experience - reading through a manuscript and discovering a set of images you never...

The Little Stranger is the latest offering from Sarah Waters, the reigning queen of period fiction as far as I'm concerned. Although I...

I think the knowledge that your setting for any piece of fiction needs to be more than incidental is drummed into our heads enough. Setting ...

Foreshadowing is one of those things that rarely occurs in first drafts. Unless you've got the multi-tasking mind of a genius, that is. ...

By now I think anybody glancing at this blog will have gleaned that I'm a Sophie Hannah fan - an unapologetic one, I must add. I love he...

It's a symptom of being human that we don't reveal everything to everyone. Some of us don't reveal anything to anyone! But even ...