Remembrance Day
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 […]
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 […]
The Caledonian Canal While we were in Aberdeen, the Stonehaven Yacht Club organised the a trip down the Caledonian Canal in the Sail Training yacht Winston Churchill. I was sea sick for a day and […]
I had the cheek to email Bernard Cromwell yesterday and discovered they are reissuing the Last Kingdom volume with a front that coincides with the TV programme. I’d rather have the book. I actually preferred […]
My wife had two maiden ‘aunts’ who kept a small private hotel in St Andrews and we spent two or three holidays there. A damp, driech place but with golf courses. I played them all, […]
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.
Granny Clarke and the Banshee