Jewels can be replaced, cousin. Independence, once lost, cannot.

As far as I can tell, it doesn’t make any difference to adults how clever children are. They always stick together. Unless you are sick or dying or mortally wounded, they will always side with...

It takes a surprising amount of courage to place one’s hand into an unseen area when your mind is thinking about vermin.

I have found it is surprisingly difficult to remain sad when a cat is doing its level best to sandpaper one’s cheeks.

Mortain plucked the arrow from his chest and bowed to Arduinna. ‘Thank you,’ he said. ‘For reminding me that love never comes without cost

I blew that clay pigeon to smithereens. I don’t know why Mum got so upset. According to Uncle Andrew she’s a crack shot herself. But she says I’m too young. What I’d like to know...