My two books set in Ancient Rome have shiny new eBook covers and I’ve enrolled them both in Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited for at least the next 3 months. So, if you are a subscriber to Kindle Unlimited, you can download The Last King of Rome and its sequel, The Eagle in the Dovecote today and […]
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Power & Glory – OUT NOW
The second book in my Thomas Wolsey trilogy, Power & Glory, has been released. This novel covers the years 1515-1520, a time when Wolsey became Henry VIII’s right hand man and gained ultimate supremacy at court. It’s also the time when Wolsey was determined to make his mark on European politics, devising various peace treaties […]
Afterword added to Master Wolsey
I realised the other day that I had neglected to include an Author’s Afterword in my novel, Master Wolsey. Historical fiction readers often like to know where in a novel fact ends and fiction takes over, so I have now added an Afterword (set out below) to the eBook edition which explains which parts of […]
Tudor Court Boxset on Sale at Kobo
If you’re a Kobo ereader user, then you can get my 3-novel Tudor Court boxset / omnibus edition for 40% off the usual price. There are plenty of boxsets in the sale: just click here. This deal is available worldwide, at all Kobo’s online stores. All you have to do is enter the code MAYSALE […]
Coriolanus On Film
While Shakespeare lovers are usually spoilt for choice when it comes to film productions of Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Othello and many others of the most popular of the Bard’s plays, this is not the case for Coriolanus. It’s easy to see why. It’s a purely political play, in the same vein as Julius […]
The Genesis Of The Eagle In The Dovecote – Coriolanus By William Shakespeare
It’s not often a writer can say where they get their ideas from. Indeed, if you were to Google ‘where do writers get their ideas from’, I daresay you would find a host of writers bemoaning this simple question. But in regard to The Eagle In the Dovecote, I can say exactly how and when […]