'Iona, an Island,a place to bring ourselves home.' On Sunday, 2nd April, I tried to control my tears as I left P. on the platform at Leamington station. It didn't help that I'd missed the earlier train to Wolverhampton which would have ensured I'd have time to go to...

York and libraries hold a lot of memories for me. I've borrowed from and studied in libraries for as long as I can remember. Public, school, college, university and while researching A Time for Peace, many others. I lived in Yorkshire till I was 11 years old and York...

At a recent meeting of our writers' group, Novelink (one of whom took part by email), we discussed the use of flashbacks and backstory in our work. We were talking about novels for which we had written the first, creative draft. These are my thoughts on the subject...

    This time last year, I had just started the first of what became 4 edits of my novel. I was anxious that I would miss errors in the text, but with Jan Fortune's help, I completed the editing satisfactorily. Further along this writing adventure, I am...

While visiting Dresden two years ago, I was impressed by one particular public sculpture to women workers. It was commissioned by the government in recognition of women who had cleared, stone by stone, the rubble that remained after the bombing during the Second World...

Rebecca Gethin is the author of What the Horses Heard published by Cinnamon Press in 2014. The novel is set in Britain and France during and after the 1st World War. It tells the story of 3 individuals against the back-drop of loss on an enormous scale. It's a...