Check, Check, and Check Again
You can’t check too much. I received the editorial review from Love Reading of Called to Account the day before last. Called to Account is the fourth book in the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures, due for publication on 8th November. They had some good things to say:...
Life in Tudor Times
Life in Tudor times was packed with uncertainty. Martin Luther’s Protestant philosophy had been debated in England during Henry VIII’s reign, but Henry had written a book defending the Catholic Church and Pope Leo X had named him “Defender of the Faith”. When Pope...
Memory Techniques
In my recent post CONNECTIONS, I was amazed that whilst reading a book on Freemasonry I came across a link to Giordano Bruno who is a key character in my book, Fire and Earth. Giordano Bruno was known as the memory man, able to perform unbelievable feats of memory....
Researching an Ancestor
When I discovered that Sir Anthony Standen had been a spy delivering detailed intelligence to Walsingham, on the preparation of the Spanish Armada, I wanted to find out if he was an ancestor, because my mother’s maiden name was Standen. I was already using Ancestry,...
Connections
I’ve just discovered some amazing connections to Sir Anthony Standen. I’m 39 pages into The Craft - How the Freemasons Made the Modern World, by John Dickie. It’s a fascinating book. I’ve just learnt that the father of freemasonry is William Schaw, who was made Master...
My Father, Vic Turner V.C. and Queen Elizabeth II
I went with my father when he visited the Rifle Brigade Museum in Winchester, when I was a boy. He was looking for a book, The Rifle Brigade Chronicle, but he didn’t know which edition. He knew that it had his name in it, and that it was in an article written by...
SUCCESSION
Since the abdication of Edward VIII we have enjoyed a clear line of succession. It hasn’t always been so. I recently reviewed Senlac in Readers Club, which covers the period around 1066. The death of Edward the Confessor presaged the Battle of Hastings and William,...
My Father, Richard Nixon, and Tony Hancock
Having connected my father with James Bond and Princess Anne, I thought this is a good way of telling his stories. My father was a dispatch rider with the Rifle Brigade in WWII, twice promoted to lance corporal and busted the next day following the celebrations. I’m...
Making Progress
I think I’m making progress. I’ve approved the 15 minute sample for the audiobook of Fire and Earth. ACX are going through their quality checks of the audio files for The Spy who Sank the Armada. If you don’t know what ACX is, it’s the Amazon owned company which...
Check, Check, and Check Again
You can’t check too much. I received the editorial review from Love Reading of Called to Account the day before last. Called to Account is the fourth book in the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures, due for publication on 8th November. They had some good things to say:...
Life in Tudor Times
Life in Tudor times was packed with uncertainty. Martin Luther’s Protestant philosophy had been debated in England during Henry VIII’s reign, but Henry had written a book defending the Catholic Church and Pope Leo X had named him “Defender of the Faith”. When Pope...
Memory Techniques
In my recent post CONNECTIONS, I was amazed that whilst reading a book on Freemasonry I came across a link to Giordano Bruno who is a key character in my book, Fire and Earth. Giordano Bruno was known as the memory man, able to perform unbelievable feats of memory....
Researching an Ancestor
When I discovered that Sir Anthony Standen had been a spy delivering detailed intelligence to Walsingham, on the preparation of the Spanish Armada, I wanted to find out if he was an ancestor, because my mother’s maiden name was Standen. I was already using Ancestry,...
Connections
I’ve just discovered some amazing connections to Sir Anthony Standen. I’m 39 pages into The Craft - How the Freemasons Made the Modern World, by John Dickie. It’s a fascinating book. I’ve just learnt that the father of freemasonry is William Schaw, who was made Master...
My Father, Vic Turner V.C. and Queen Elizabeth II
I went with my father when he visited the Rifle Brigade Museum in Winchester, when I was a boy. He was looking for a book, The Rifle Brigade Chronicle, but he didn’t know which edition. He knew that it had his name in it, and that it was in an article written by...
SUCCESSION
Since the abdication of Edward VIII we have enjoyed a clear line of succession. It hasn’t always been so. I recently reviewed Senlac in Readers Club, which covers the period around 1066. The death of Edward the Confessor presaged the Battle of Hastings and William,...
My Father, Richard Nixon, and Tony Hancock
Having connected my father with James Bond and Princess Anne, I thought this is a good way of telling his stories. My father was a dispatch rider with the Rifle Brigade in WWII, twice promoted to lance corporal and busted the next day following the celebrations. I’m...
Making Progress
I think I’m making progress. I’ve approved the 15 minute sample for the audiobook of Fire and Earth. ACX are going through their quality checks of the audio files for The Spy who Sank the Armada. If you don’t know what ACX is, it’s the Amazon owned company which...