by David West | Jan 24, 2024 | News
Last night I watched Josh Widdicombe on Who Do You Think You Are? It turned out that he’s descended from both King Edward I of England and King Philip III of France. He may also be descended from Henry VIII and there were knights of the realm on route too. Who knows,...
by David West | Jan 19, 2024 | News
I usually have a destination in mind when I start on a journey. I may have misled some readers with my last post, Writing and Walking. I said that I’d been struggling with the ending of The Favourite Murder, the fifth book in the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures, and...
by David West | Jan 17, 2024 | News
Walking and writing seem to go together for me really well. I wrote The Spy who Sank the Armada, the first book of the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures during lockdown. Whenever I got stuck over a scene, I went for a long walk. I hasten to add that this was the part of...
by David West | Jan 15, 2024 | News
I’ve just been interviewed by The Reader’s House magazine. Apparently it’s the first and only British print magazine available in over 190 countries. It’s available in Barnes & Noble, Waterstones, Blackwells, Amazon and many, many other outlets. My interview is a...
by David West | Jan 7, 2024 | News
Galileo discovered the first three moons of Jupiter on this day in 1610. By a happy coincidence, also on the 7th January, but in 1618, Francis Bacon became Lord Chancellor of England. The happy coincidence is because there is a connection to Sir Anthony Standen, my...
