by David West | Mar 10, 2023 | News
I’ve posted recently about my EV range experience, and I used the public charging network for the first time yesterday. We were going to a family funeral in Wellingborough, Northampton. I calculated the round trip as 243 miles. Because my range at 80% charge is around...
by David West | Mar 8, 2023 | News
Writing historical fiction demands an immense amount of research. All writers must conduct research, but not all writers need to worry about whether potatoes had reached Europe yet. I enjoy researching my novels in the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures. Today is...
by David West | Mar 5, 2023 | News
I haven’t written anything about my Skoda Enyaq for around a month. As yet, I still haven’t needed to use the public charging network. Claire and I went to visit Windsor Castle on Friday, and we took the Enyaq. We started off with it charged to 80%, and it was showing...
by David West | Mar 2, 2023 | News
Classic FM informed me that today, 2nd March 2023, is world book day. Perhaps as an author I should have known that. What is world book day anyway? UNESCO created world book day on 23rd April 1995, and it is now celebrated in over a hundred countries. The Scotsman...
by David West | Feb 27, 2023 | News
The latest edition of Red Herrings arrived today. It’s the bulletin of the Crime Writers’ Association, or CWA for short. I love that crime writers have a bulletin rather than a newsletter, how appropriate. There are some interesting articles. Anne Penketh has written...
by David West | Feb 24, 2023 | News
Today I finished reading The Young Richelieu. Elizabeth Marvik wrote a magnificent psychoanalytical biography of Cardinal Richelieu, chief advisor to Louis XIII. Having now read her biographies of both men, I feel equipped to move onto the next stage of Book 5 in the...
