Article originally published on the  Andante Travel Website as an interview with Clare The women of the Special Operations Executive...

Clare Mulley talks to HWA Honorary Patron, Michael Morpurgo, about the extraordinary family history that inspired his latest book. On...

Secrets of a Spy's Jewellery As a biographer I hope to get under the skin of my subjects, to trace their emotions, hopes and attitude...

As I understand it, biography is about finding out the truth about people and reporting back. This seems perfect work for me, as I am natura...

This 6th June was the 70th anniversary of D Day, the day when Allied troops landed in Normandy to start the liberation of Nazi German-occupi...

Last week my biography of Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granville, the first woman to work for Britain as a special agent in the Second Wo...

As a historical biographer, I aim to capture the spirit of people on paper. And yet my latest subject, Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granv...

"Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you." -- Ford Madox Ford The Sp...

The Spy Who Loved The eponymous Spy Who Loved was Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granville, Britain’s first female special agent of ...

First published in the "History on an Hour" blogsite,  2013 One can’t help but gasp with admiration at the life and exploits of ...

On this day in 1939, just a few months after the Nazi invasion of Poland that had marked the start of WWII, a determined Polish Countess and...