Emily, the elusive Brontë sister, is often portrayed as reclusive, difficult, perhaps even slightly unhinged. Two centuries of Brontë scholarship have created an inscrutable image of this singular woman; Emily as enigma has...
Read More“What drew you to write about the moors?” an interviewer asked me recently. We were discussing my latest book, The Coffin Path, a 17th century ghost story set in West Yorkshire and conversation had turned, inevitably, to that...
Read MoreEmily Brontë is the most elusive of the famous Brontë siblings. We know little about her beyond her propensity for solitude, her preference for simple domestic life and her love of the moorland landscape surrounding the Haworth...
Read More“We’re going back…back to Small Heath,” says a blood-spattered Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) in the opening episode of Peaky Blinders, season four. “Back where you belong,” replies Johnny Dogs (Packy Lee) – he knows, as do...
Read More“So, what exactly is the Reformation?” asks one of my fellow journalists at the press preview of John Rylands Library’s new exhibition. There’s a pause from our guide that suggests this is not a new question. Then she says,...
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