I didn’t always know I wanted to be a writer, but I always knew I was a storyteller.  Since I can remember, my party piece was always telling a story.  Thankfully, I had very indulgent aunts, uncles and cousins, who would sit for one of my ‘performances’ and give me a big round of applause at the end.  I recently met a school-friend who reminded me of the poetry recitals we used to give at lunchtime – all our own material!  So I suppose I’ve always enjoyed entertaining people with made-up stories, but the writing came much later. 

My writing is really inspired by half-formed ideas, fragments of conversations and snippets that accrue over the years.  Sometimes I’ll be trawling the net looking for something and alight on a completely different piece of information, which sends me on all sorts of tangents!  History is my passion and this definitely…