There is an old saying: act in haste, repent in leisure. For Mary Hilton, convicted of the murder of Lucy Carpenter whom she shot several times outside her
The Ilkley Literature Festival, a chance to meet authors and publishers, to discuss new works and classics, to relax in the historic West Yorkshire town in the company
“Becky is as strong-willed and vindictive as they come.” Perhaps not a recommendation in the traditional sense, particularly from a prospective step-parent when speaking about her fiancé’s thirteen-year-old
Little Happy, a former fishing village off the coast of Mozambique, now a victim of climate change and almost abandoned as rising sea levels have reduced it to
The streets of Val Malaina in Rome in the post-war depression, the men queued up in hopes of finding employment; Antonio Ricci is fortunate to have been chosen
On the upper tip of the north island of New Zealand, Waikato is a large region of unspoiled wilderness and sparse communities, home to less than half a
A daydream or waking nightmare travels cross-country with Atticus Freeman, of flying saucers and tripod machines with death rays, of winged, tentacled demons and exotic women who descend
To the ancient astronomers, it pleased their beliefs that the cosmos was an ordered place where the stars and planets moved on fixed and fully predictable paths, that
Science would have it that sea monsters do not exist, but the tragic experience of Captain Seafield during a fishing trip the shores of Lake Michigan have led