Some authors are blessed with illustrators who enhance their work with the distinction of their own. So it was in…
Forgetfulness The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking…
Before the Charge The night is still and the air is keen, Tense with menace the time crawls by, In…
The Day That Summer Died From all around the mourners came The day that Summer died, From hill and valley,…
Here then, as promised is the indulgence of blackberry poems. (For any very young readers confused by Thirteen Ways of…
If we had some bacon we could have bacon and eggs but we've got no eggs. That First World War…
Farm work is one of the best jobs for getting to know people as they really are. The…
Paul Nash's fascination with aerial bombardment led him to an ecstatic vision of “the sky blossoming with floating flowers”. This,…
Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge...…
"I was so rushed I had not time to go into the details," - Cyril Ratcliffe. The political leaders of…