Marjorie Bowen Black Magic 368pp. Vintage. Paperback, £9.99. Marjorie Bowen Julia Roseingrave 256pp. British Library. Paperback, £9.99. Born in 1885, Marjorie Bowen wrote her first novel, The Viper of

The beauty of Lancashire’s Lune valley emerges from ...

Leading historians share the texts that have inspired and informed their work

I was a teenager during the Second World War, although the term teenager was not in use in those days. You were just a lad. What’s more, one often left school and became a worker at age 14, as I did i

In January 1918, a few months after Lenin’s Bolsheviks had captured the Winter Palace in Petrograd, Rhoda Power left the house in Rostov-on-Don where she was employed as a governess and wandered throu

Legends Of Indie Comics: Words Only adds Walt Simonson and Mark Wheatley for its second volume