As a historical novelist, I’m fascinated by the gaps in history, the silenced stories, the holes that riddle our past.…
Although Henry VIII is famous for abandoning, beheading and divorcing his wives it seems he didn’t enjoy ‘goodbyes.’ Each of…
In 1846 William John Thoms, a British writer, penned a letter to The Athenaeum, a British Magazine. In this letter,…


