What I’m writing about this week, #9: Saxon religion
Today Obermarsberg is a suburb of a leafy town called Marsberg (estimated pop. 20,000) in North-Rhine/Westphalia. However, this ordinary, even…
2020? Goodbye to all that!
So here it is, Merry Christmas, everybody’s trying to have fun but . . . well, you all know what’s…
Robin Hood and the Caliph’s Gold: extract #2
This is an extract from my latest novel Robin Hood and the Caliph’s Gold, which has been out for six…
Holcroft Blood and the Battle of the Boyne – a last hurrah?
The third and final book in my series about Holcroft Blood, the mildly autistic 17th-century English artillery officer and son…
Battle of the Boyne – fought on this day* 330 years ago
On a blisteringly hot day in July 1690, on the banks of a placid brown river in the east of…