Sir Walter Raleigh’s head was separated from the rest of his body on the 29th of October, 1619. Wikipedia tells us that Raleigh is ‘well known as the populariser of tobacco’. It also tells us that his last words, after he lay his neck upon the block, were: “Strike, man, strike!” And that his embalmed …
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One Stop on the Central Line. By Roger Morris. There was something odd about the train. Something jarring as it hurtled along the west-bound Central Line platform at Holborn. He registered it subconsciously, a reaction in his limbic system. A chill, the beginnings of a creeping sensation in his skin. And then he realised what …
I’ve written eight historical novels. Nine, if you count the one that my publisher is currently reading. Even more if you count the manuscripts languishing on my hard drive. But my next book, PSYCHOTOPIA, is set in the future. You could even describe it as science fiction. Maybe I need to explain myself. Why have …
I know. I know. It was only yesterday, surely, when my last book came out? (Actually, it was back in March in the UK, July in the US.) Can it really be true that I’m about to unleash another novel on an unsuspecting world? Well, yes, it can. It is. The book in question is …
I’ve been busy. Which is why the blog has been a little quiet. But now I think I’m pretty much done with the next Silas Quinn novel. (Number five in the series. If you want to catch up with the earlier ones, this ebook omnibus of the first two books is a great place to …