It’s not every day you have a book coming out in America. But, for me, it is today. My latest novel The White Feather Killer is officially released on the other side of the Pond. So what shall I do to celebrate? Something suitably American. I’m thinking donuts maybe. Or burger and fries. Maybe a …
You may have seen the news coverage about the centenary of the Battle of Amiens earlier this week, which began the 100 day offensive leading up to the armistice 100 years ago. To commemorate the end of the First World War, a group of writers called 26 has invited 100 writers each to write a centena …
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This year is the centenary of the end of the First World War. To commemorate that the writers’ collective 26 is running a very special project. They have invited 100 writers to produce a piece of writing exactly 100 words long inspired by someone who was alive at any time during the 1914-18 war. Male, …
This is a follow-up post to Fake news is nothing new (Part 1), where I began to tell the story of Kate Hume, a young office worker from Dumfries who in September 1914 forged two letters, purportedly evidence that her sister Grace, a nurse, had died horribly at the hands of the Germans in Belgium. …
I’ve just finished checking the proofs for The Red Hand of Fury. The book comes out in hardback at the end of March. It’s the fourth book in my Silas Quinn series and takes the story up to the outbreak of the First World War. That event happens while my hero… no, I’ll stop myself there …