The Boy from Boskovice

What makes a good man bad? Nature versus nurture? Local author Vicky Unwin was sorting through the documents of her father, the Holocaust survivor Tomas Ungar. What she uncovered was an uncomfortable discovery which she has written about in her…

Categories: Books, Events, Feature

What’s Your Story?

By Xandra Bingley. It was a thrill to be a judge of the short story competition created by On The Hill. Along with judges Valerie St Johnston and David Goodman, we read sixty-nine entries from all different ages, which really revealed…

Categories: Writing

Teenage Lockdown

Two girls from Haverstock School have sent On The Hill a short extract from their diaries. It encapsulates how many of our young people must be feeling at the moment. Dear Diary, Lockdown has been very stressful for me and…

Categories: COVID-19, Writing

Coronavirus Diary

As a writer and editor for twenty five years, when I moved to this area I started contributing to On The Hill magazine. I have decided to chronicle what’s happening in the world right now and this is my Corona…

Categories: Coronavirus, Writing