by David West | Jul 16, 2022 | Readers Club
To get Book Club going, my favourite book is The Last Enemy by Richard Hillary. It was published as Falling Through Space in the US. I first read it at Oxford, and Hillary’s story begins during his time at Oxford immediately before WWII. He is determined to become a...
by David West | Jul 16, 2022 | Readers Club
My next favourite book is Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E Lawrence. My father fought in WWII, firstly in the Western Desert. His officers had told him that it was the greatest book written about desert warfare. One day I must get around to recording my father’s...
by David West | Jul 16, 2022 | News
I have recently sent my third Sir Anthony Standen Adventure The Suggested Assassin for a Kirkus review. Kirkus are the premier book review organisation in the United States. Their magazine has been read by librarians and film producers since 1933. I’m hoping for a...
by David West | Jul 15, 2022 | Readers Club
I’m going to go non fiction next, with The Seven Basic Plots: why we tell stories, by Christopher Booker. I had just begun the Open University’s creative writing course. My first assignment had been a short story which remains one of my wife’s favourites. However my...
by David West | Jul 14, 2022 | News
My genre is historical fiction. My good friend John Holland has persuaded me to add audiobooks to the paperbacks and ebooks. Having now hired a producer Simon, I have discovered something interesting. As part of the audiobook production process, Simon asked me to...
