by David West | Jul 19, 2022 | News
Readers may be interested to know what comes next after The Suggested Assassin. The fourth book in The Sir Anthony Standen Adventures is Called to Account. The manuscript is currently with my editor, Debz Hobbs-Wyatt. We shall have to wait and see what corrections and...
by David West | Jul 18, 2022 | Readers Club
I read The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra in the late 1980’s after a friend recommended it. It draws parallels between quantum physics and eastern philosophy. Immediately after reading it, I woke up in the middle of the night feeling that I understood the universe....
by David West | Jul 17, 2022 | News
As I neared the end of my first novel, The Spy who Sank the Armada, I knew that I wanted to continue writing historical fiction. I had given Sir Anthony a family, so that I could continue the stories, right up to the present day, if I have time. For finding...
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...
