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“When I first went into the BBC a producer said, ‘nobody wants to be lectured at by a woman’.” Some 25 years, three books and 250 million viewers later, I think it’s safe to say that the producer was wrong. Since 2000,...
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...
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