Regency tales

A new edition for ebook and paperback Click on the title to see details                             April and May                   ...

From Gjirokastra a good road leads north to Tepelena, a distance of about twenty miles. The wide valley is fertile and peaceful, with the ...

In the very south of Albania lies the extraordinary site of Butrint . It is about 24 km south of Sarande [just a mile across the sea f...

Cascading downhill from the castle to the valley floor, the stone houses of Gjirokastra are unique. The tall buildings range from a simp...

Gjirokastra is another picturesque Albanian city, which grew and spread out gradually from its imposing castle towering over the town. The...

It was on 19th July in 1799 that the  Rosetta Stone   was discovered near Cairo in Egypt. It soon fell from the hands of the French to the ...

April and May by Beth Elliott Robert Hale, London, 2010, 224pp (hb) ISBN: 978 0 7090 9042 7 When I was a boy, the local library refused...

                                                                Tulips in TopKapi Palace Garden The reign of Sultan Ahmet III   [170...

Mahmud II was 23 when he became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire in 1808. He came to the throne in the most dramatic fashion in the midst ...

For fifteen months, Lady Emilia Hornby lived in Constantinople. Her husband, Sir Edmund Hornby, was the British financial commissioner in th...

Large Print Edition, published by Ulverscroft. Shortlisted for the RNA Romance Prize in 2009 "This is perhaps a quintes...

 Through their Blog, No.1 LONDON , [ onelondonone.blogspot.com   ] I take a keen  interest in following the adventures  of  Kristine an...

In a previous life I was surely a squirrel and the hoarding instinct has stayed with me. I store up treats, savour the delight of having a ...

Sometimes it's essential to take a total break from the job in hand. But when you're a writer, how do you stop the spring of ideas f...