Rachel Bavidge

Prayer and ingenuity have kept the remote English convent of St Winifreda in the Fen going for centuries, but now the roof leaks, the bell tower is crumbling and rats have moved in. The Bishop’s accountant wants to send the retired sisters to a home,...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) and Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) were both regarded as the female poet laureates of their time, and between them their writings spanned almost the entire Victorian age, from the end of Romanticism to the...

Cathy Wilson is driving to Norfolk, to begin her new job with the Harvey family. She is going to look after the two young children, Tim and Susan. Cathy meets the children's father, and their grandmother, and their aunt. She meets Nick, the farmer who...

"A funny thing happened to me on the way to Armageddon …"It’s bad enough when you wake up in the middle of a forest with a thick head, no memory …Oh, and you're wearing a Santa party dress."I guess I had a skinful or two. It doesn’t feel like...

"A funny thing happened to me on the way to Armageddon …"It’s bad enough when you wake up in the middle of a forest with a thick head, no memory …Oh, and you're wearing a Santa party dress."I guess I had a skinful or two. It doesn’t feel like...