My last few fiction reads have been set in the twentieth or twenty-first centuries, so today I’m doing something a little different as part ...

Welcome back to my Neo-Victorian Voices series in which I review novels written in the twenty-first century but set in the nineteenth. Toda...

It’s been around two months since the inaugural History Through Fiction Conference in Beverly, MA. I previously published a Part One blog po...

Butter yellow may be trending in 2026, but in vogue colors aren’t a new phenomenon. I recently read The King in Yellow , by Robert W. Chamb...

This weekend I had the pleasure of being the keynote speaker and leading a masterclass on what we can learn from Charles Dickens about writi...