Why Folklore? And why is it important to me? Sounds a simple enough question, only once you start to strip away the obvious you quite...

Over the last few years, whilst struggling with mental health, I've come to realise how important the folklore, history and landscape of...

'Neverwhere' by Neil Gaiman; where to start? Over there, perhaps. I really enjoyed this book for lots of reasons. Firstly I loved the...

Well this was a strange one for me. At times it dropped to a 2 star, then rose up to a 4 star and then ended overall as a 3 star for me....

This year I released my first novel, ‘Nightjar’. It’s a fantasy, with more than a hint of dystopia, set in a feudal future and centred...

I enjoyed this. I love mythology, especially Celtic folklore, and although well aware of Norse mythology - mainly through popular culture...

The next few weeks my blog will be about the books I've read. Recently, of course. It follows on from my thoughts on reading Jean Teule's...

I enjoyed one of those wonderful events recently; you know the one, when you pick up a random book in the library and it turns out to be...

On an earlier post I made mention of Sandy’s Iron Age forts, and in so doing touched on Vikings too. It’s true. There were Vikings in...

A writer of words and a musician in the past, I find myself immensely proud of the role and function of bardic tradition in Celtic...