One of the things I get asked when people have read Sixty-One Nails is; where did I get the idea for the Quit Rents Ceremony from? The short answer to that is, I didn’t make it up. I found it. Back when I was developing the novel, I was researching English folk-lore to incorporate into…
Category: History
Lethal London
The Thames is one of the great rivers of the world, but not because of it’s size. It is dwarfed by the Amazon and the Nile, it is nowhere near as wide as the Chao Phraya where it flows through Bangkok or the Hudson as it slides past the New York skyline. Nor is it…
Is That Gingerbread?
One of the oldest and most pervasive images in folklore is the Cottage in the Woods. Whether that cottage is where Grandma lives when Little Red Riding Hood comes to call or whether it is older and darker and might suddenly sprout chicken legs and walk about, the iconic image runs like a thread through…