On your website you wrote “To my mind, truth really is much stranger than fiction!” Please enlighten us about this and about how does it relate to your work.
Most of my books are well-researched history, and I've published them myself because no publisher would take them on initially. Anne Lister (1791-1840) lived near Charlotte Bronte (remember Jane Eyre?) and her sisters on the stony moors of northern England. She wrote copious diaries, much of it in secret code. My job as a research associate at Birmingham University in the mid-80s was to translate her coded passages into normal English, and you'll find out more if you read my books. My other main subject is the extra-marital affair of William Butler Yeats the poet and Unionist Senator in Free State Ireland in the 1920s, and his lover, a 25-year-old Catholic woman who was eventually murdered. Both of these are true stories - only a mad person would make them up.