I recently spent over a year of my life ghostwriting Scottish historical romance novels, and if you're wondering how on earth I managed to land a gig like that, well, ...
As Old Rose in Titanic once memorably said, "It's been 84 years..." Except, in this case, it's only really been five years, and I'm not talking about the sinking of ...
Seacliff Beach, East Lothian My mum often likes to tell the story of my first foreign holiday: an event which happened when I was roughly the same age Max is now, ...
Once you’ve visited Dungeness beach, and the weirdly wonderful land that surrounds it, you start to see it everywhere. On TV. In movies. As the setting of that random daydream…
Earlier this year, my parents - knowing how much we enjoy a good castle or stately home visit - very kindly gifted us with a year's membership to the National ...
Last Friday afternoon, Terry and I headed into Edinburgh for a stroll in the spring sunshine, while Max was at nursery. It was three days before restaurants and shops were ...