Keith Waterhouse’s excellent debut novel There is a Happy Land was published in1957 and is narrated by an unnamed boy (‘Told her my name’ (...

The Wicked Day is Mary Stewart’s fourth instalment of her Arthurian legend, published in 1983. The first three books are The Crystal Cave...

Stephen A Ambrose’s weighty tome D-Day does what it says on the cover: it’s about the battle for the Normandy beaches on June 6, 1944. It wa...

Some writers believe that all those piles of writing ideas that had not been translated into either short stories or books should be ditch...

In May 1985 I was fortunate to be onboard HMS Diomede when we visited the Falklands and the island of South Georgia. This is an article I w...

Martin Middlebrook (2003, revised from the 1988 edition). The author was generously given time and interviews by many Argentine combatants, ...

Eric Ambler’s debut novel The Dark Frontier was published in 1936, when the master was still learning his craft. It’s an unusual treatmen...

Bernard Cornwell’s 2001 historical novel Gallows Thief is yet another rip-roaring fast-paced enjoyable read. Set in England a short while...

Robert Harris’s 2019 novel The Second Sleep is most intriguing and certainly kept me reading. It is set in 1468 when we meet the young pr...

The first Amelia Peabody novel, Crocodile on the Sandbank , was published in 1975.   I read her third and sixth adventures ( The Mummy Case ...