
Visiting St Petersburg Russia in 2013
At the end of July 2013, my husband and I spent a week in St Petersburg. At that time, my husband was Visiting Professor at

At the end of July 2013, my husband and I spent a week in St Petersburg. At that time, my husband was Visiting Professor at

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Although the Victorian part of this novel takes place primarily in 1849, the novel itself actually opens ten years earlier, in 1839. Sixteen-year-old Imogen Hadley,

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Madrid was the last stop of Odyssey’s Unlimited tour of Portugal and Southern Spain, and so they treated us to a three-night stay at the

Alison’s Weir’s recent book THE CARDINAL, an historical novel about Thomas Wolsey (1471-1530), sheds light on the personality of Henry VIII. If, like me, you

For this holiday (April 2025), I decided to spend a week in Sussex, where I’d spent time as a child, visiting the beautiful city of

Minette Walter’s debut novel, THE ICE HOUSE (published 1992) opens with an arresting discovery of a decomposed body found in…you guessed it, the ice house.

When I booked this holiday to Europe, I decided to use British Airways not only to get me from the continent to the UK, but

When I find a writer I like, I read nearly everything they’ve written from beginning to end. And this series about Mary Russell and Sherlock

This London Walk began at Bermondsey Underground Station. Shortly before the start time, everyone appeared including the guide. The first thing she did was to