Today is Lancashire Day when the people of Lancashire celebrate the anniversary of sending its first members to the Model Parliament of...

I have asked this question in a previous blog. Why do screenwriters distort historical events so much? Over the weekend, I watched the...

One of the first acts by the Royal Navy during WW1was to have the German underwater telegraphic cables cut in the North Sea, thus denying...

I am now about two thirds of the way through the first draft of my latest and fourth WW1 naval thriller, Where the Baltic Ice is Thin. I...

In June 1913, Winston Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty, persuaded the House of Commons that the Treasury should spend £2.2...

My new book will be launched in just under two weeks' time. It tells the tale of a young man's reluctant entry into Britain's embryonic...

I have just sent the final proofs back to my publisher for the next novel in my series about the Miller family in WW1. It was odd to read...

Naturally, I am extremely proud to have received twenty-two 5* reviews on Amazon UK for my first novel, The Custom of the Trade, as well...