The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled.

It is always difficult, even with the best will in the world, to look back a long way and see anything resembling the truth.

Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.

She was owner and captive, both, of a bitterly divided heart.

Unless the perfidious wolves have the temerity to disobey the High King's plans, we should meet Shalhassan's forces by the Latham in mid-wood with the wolves between us. If they aren't,' Diarmuid concluded, 'we blame anyone and everything except the plan.

You'd never killed anyone. Then you had.

Why did becoming accustomed to something have to render its pleasures stale.