On fictional values

Reading historical novels is always interesting – diving into a different time period , and finding out all the details of people’s lives, and how they lived, and what they ate, and what they thought (even if they are made

On reading one more chapter before bed

I finished reading The Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland yesterday. The first book in the Arthur trilogy, it is set in 1199 on the border between England and Wales. It is a beautifully written story, that really brings the past to life,