Stepping out along the way Stephen and I meant to start our journey in Ireland but close to the departure date I fell off a ladder and...

Who were the Celts? Did their spirit endure? There was a quest underlying my journey through Europe in 2015, born from my attraction to...

Communication isn't a core function of colouring books even when people get together in groups. But it is for art.

I find that spiritual knowledge and understanding sits somewhere near the heart of anything I write, including my biography of Sheila...

When hard facts of history become personal symbols of initiation: My hunch is that the figure of Mary Magdalene and her life story plays...

This extraordinary woman is at the heart of Marriages of the Magdalene. Yet she was not the inspiration behind my novel – at least not at...

Surfing reminds me of a dance, a pas de deux with the ocean. Yet decribing surfing as 'dance-like' draws attention to why it is not dance.

Spirals are universal, in the mathematics of nature and in much of what humans design. For example here is a spiral of branches and...

One of the things I’d like to write about is the imagery I use. I’ll start with the river. The one on the website comes from an oil...

Beauty is very easily commodified beause it is misunderstood