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  • The recurring themes in my novels

    As a multi-genre writer, and a writer of a couple of different series of books, one might expect there to be certain recurring themes – the Nazis in the Greater German Reich for example – but there are also a number of other, more subtle, recurring themes. Prisons There have been frequent prison scenes within… Read more

  • Maggie’s Children: A story without a blurb

    Maggie’s Children: A story without a blurb

    My novel Maggie’s Children is a book without a blurb. I’ve always been rubbish at writing blurbs, and I’ve known for a long time that this particular novel does not have a blurb which adequately sells it. So what’s Maggie’s Read more

  • Donald Trump & the Greater German Reich

    Donald Trump & the Greater German Reich

    If you’ve read part four of my alternative history series “The Greater German Reich”, you will know that Donald Trump made an appearance towards the very end. I was accused of flinging him into the book as a cheap gimmick, Read more

  • The glaring errors in the Greater German Reich

    The glaring errors in the Greater German Reich

    When I first wrote die Stunde X, I was in my early twenties, there was no such thing as the Internet (at least, not to the masses), and the source material for my research into the Third Reich consisted of Read more

  • The story behind “Besotted”

    The story behind “Besotted”

    Besotted was a tough novel to write. A modern-day “Lolita”, an alcoholic writer with cancer, and a bizarre, perhaps stomach-churning twist, the journey from the first few lines through to completion was eventful and inspiring. I initially wanted to write Read more

  • Dark Satanic Mills & Russia

    Dark Satanic Mills & Russia

    Was it a cheap gimmick or a prophesy that saw the link between Russia and the rebel insurgents feature in the first instalment of Dark Satanic Mills? Truthfully, it was a bit of both. Way back when I began to Read more

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