After a decade of writing, the final component of my novel When We Fall was provided by a pioneer of women in aviation. When We Fall took...

At the heart of my novel, When We Fall, lies one of the most notorious crimes of the second world war; the murder of more than 22,000...

Do you drink kaffee or kawa? It’s a serious question for the characters in my novel, When We Fall, because for them national identity is...

Soon after embarking on my novel about British women pilots in world war two, I began to consider adding a Polish strand to the story and...

In the past few years, amateur paedophile hunters have rarely been far from the headlines of Britain’s tabloid newspapers. ‘The nation is...

Writing a work of fiction requires different muscles to writing history. The historian’s impulse is to prove an argument by inclusion of...

One night in 1851, as Hannah Cullwick looked into an open fire, she saw in the flames ‘a nice manly face with a moustache’ and knew that...

Where does a novel come from? I can trace my first thoughts about the story that would become The Conviction of Cora Burns with a Google...

Following the 1834 Poor Law and the extension of poverty relief by local Unions of parishes, the old workhouse in the centre of...

My journey started with Sir Francis Galton, the Victorian polymath who coined the phrase 'nature versus nurture' and provided the...

by Carolyn Kirby From the study where I do my writing, I have a distant view of the Berkshire Downs and at the centre of that view,...