Winners
I don’t understand all this business of not having winners at school. The only way I ever had a chance to qualify for university was being in competition with my cousin. It’s fine to talk […]
I don’t understand all this business of not having winners at school. The only way I ever had a chance to qualify for university was being in competition with my cousin. It’s fine to talk […]
The book I want to write before I die is about The Giant Within all of us. It’s a calm giant, easily restrained by social convention or inhibition or even lack of self esteem. This […]
As you will have gathered from the books I write, I have an interest in history. It comes from my father and one teacher. Other teachers taught that the Romans left Britain in 410, about […]
We were talking of the America’s Cup the other day and saying I had written quite a bit about the South African entry in the early two thousands reminded me that Royal Cape Yacht Club […]
I’ve told people how I came to learn of the Five Shilling Rebellion and write both King or Kaiser and Shadows in the Veldt but I want to continue until the creation of the Cape […]
One of the oddities of the story of the Five Shilling Rebellion in South Africa at the start of WW1 is that even many Afrikaners are unaware of that part of their history. I was […]
Shadows in the Veld is the seventh book to be published and follows on from King or Kaiser and the story of how the South Africans helped the Royal Navy in 1914at the start of […]
I’ve got to give a talk on the Five Shilling Rebellion in South Africa in 1914 to Probus in a week’s time. The talk isn’t a problem, It’s a kind of roll up of the […]
The Celts were everywhere. Did their trumpets blow down the walls of Jericho?
Sometimes one becomes invisible to those around one and wonderrs how that experience has inspired writers.