My new book is out this autumn – and I hope it will prove a gripping read. The UK and US editions In March 2018 I made ...

High summer in Gloucestershire. We drive over the Cotswolds through lanes of flickering shade and blond wheat fields shimmering in the heat...

On this day, Vasco da Gama sailed to India...

The website updated with news of the new book. Men being thrown off battlements, heroic looking crusaders whacking unfortunate Muslims. To l...

I spent a couple of hours in the company of my web designer the other day looking again at pictures of the remarkable painted monastery of M...

The blog has been having a pretty long holiday, some might say a mid-life crisis. Partly this is down to pressure of writing life, and partl...