Around 30 years ago, my family and I moved to York. On one of our getting to know the place outings, we drove along a quiet lane and spotted a small stone cross leaning gently to one side of the road. It seemed oddly out of place, surrounded as it was by fields. So we stopped and noted the inscription, which read, "The Battle of Towton 1461." A battle neither of us had heard of.
It wasn't until I came across an article by AA Gill in August 2008 that the story was revealed. Towton, it...
In this, the final part of the Atticus Series, I'd grown more confident about my fiction writing. For a time, I was a little concerned that some readers appeared to be purchasing the book, or listening to the audio version, without having read parts 1 and 2.
However, the book seems to do well as a stand-alone story and doesn't require a grasp of the first two in the series.
I guess there's not much I can say other than offer the associated blurb:
Britannia 383 CE: General Magnus Maximus is...
They say that much of history is written by the victor. Much of what we think we know about druids is probably due to Roman propaganda, which is why, even today, they get a bad press. Say the word Druid and it's easy to conjure images of human sacrifice, maybe cannibalism, cruelty, and manipulation (that or something closer to Gandalf the Grey)!
But why? Well, comparatively little is known about Druidism, but in today's parlance, it seems pretty clear that these were influencers, which is why...
Most of my writing as an academic had been formal, and later, it became more 'semi-formal' as I began to focus on self-help and personal growth issues. But I'd always had a hankering to do something different. As a writer, I was a bit nervous about the mixing of genres, so I thought I'd use my blog as a way of outlining some of my fiction.
I've always been interested in history. Many of the books I've read reflect that interest, from the more formal but...
