Creative Writing – the Weirdness of the Middle Period

Creative Writing – the Weirdness of the Middle Period

Hmm. Yes. Well. To the untutored eye (mine?) you might think that nothing much was going on in the world of shed-building, but that’s where you’d be wrong, so terribly wrong.  In fact, there’s felt on the roof (held down with bricks, admittedly), the...

A Place of Greater Safety

I’ve had a tummy bug over the last few days and have been feeling under the weather – boo hoo – but it has meant that I can go hurtling through A Place of Greater Safety, Hilary Mantel’s epic novel about the French Revolution.  It’s...