Dec 3, 2023Richard III was Innocent!Or so claims Philippa Langley in her new book The Princes in the Tower: Solving History’s Greatest Cold Case. I confess I haven’t read it...
Nov 18, 2023Now for something very old, but also quite new…This time Beowulf. The oldest surviving poem in the Germanic languages. The only manuscript copy, which can be found in the British...
Oct 28, 2023The end of life as we know it, or the beginning?One of my book groups has a plan: to explore women writers of the mid-twentieth century whose work we don’t know. This has brought me to...