By the time you reach my age, there are so many anniversaries to honour, some happy, some sad. Sometimes you miss one. On the third of January, it was seventy years since I first watched Bolton Wanderers. My Dad decided that at seven I was old enough. We were playing...
I listened a couple of days ago to two excellent podcasts by Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook about the life of Christ, part of their The Rest is History series. They were well done, if telling me what I already knew or have thought. I agree with them that the census...
There’s nothing better than reading a review from someone who’s really got what you’re on about. The latest from Donovan’s Bookshelf in the Reviews section has done just that. I’ve not written a bestseller, and the books aren’t going to be the next Netflix series, but...
Publication Date is this week for The Dove Is Dead, the last bird in the Unholy Trinity. The idea of having the covers to my novels forming a mini-aviary only came to me with the publication of the second book, No Precedent, the themes of which both included and...
It’s six months since I last blogged. In that time, I’ve completed The Unholy Trinity with the last novel in the trilogy, The Dove is Dead, to accompany Where’s Sailor Jack? and No Precedent. A budgie, a crow and a dove. Life, death and the hope of resurrection? Or...
The Dove Is Dead, the final novel in The Unholy Trilogy, is more or less ready to go, or at least was until this last week. Harold Macmillan famously answered when asked what was the biggest challenge to a statesman, “Events, dear boy, events.” He said this at a time...
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