Emily Dickinson says how ‘November always seemed to be the Norway of the year’. Maybe this metaphor is linked to the month’s darkness.

Today, if you think about American spellings of words like ‘color’ (in the UK, we’d write ‘colour’), much of it is linked to American dictionary pioneer Noah Webster.

Whatever your personal circumstances, you are likely to rise to the challenge and move forward on your journey successfully.

Young adult (YA) readers are spoilt for choice – there is so much to choose from nowadays that no-one can say ‘there’s nothing to read’.

Capture the Sunset week begins on Monday.

A poem can take you somewhere special in very few words. Here are some of my favourites…

A little bit of forward thinking could make the next stage of your education all the more enjoyable (and hopefully, a bit easier to manage.)

Each year, a different country takes ownership for the sponsoring the day – and this year it is the turn of Greece.

Brian Bilston’s latest poetry collection is a perfect book, taking each day of each month and exploring something linked to that day.

Ultimately, the old adage still applies today as much as it did back in the dim and distant past: failing to prepare is akin to preparing to fail.