Moorish Málaga: Secrets beneath our feet
We all like looking around old castles and forts but do we ever stop to think what it would have been like to have lived in one of them? Let’s […]
Researching the novel THE SHINING CITY
I knew from the start that writing a novel set in Moorish Spain would take a lot of work. I only had a general idea about what life was like […]
What Spain owes to the Moors
One of the advantages of writing books about Spain is that you have a great excuse to trot about the countryside investigating things. During the research for my novel THE […]
Latest novel: The Shining City
I loved researching the history behind my latest novel THE SHINING CITY. Besides reading a lot about the period, I made many trips to the archaeological site of Madinat al Zahra, […]