Author of The World War Two Series
I've written a novel for each of the seven years of World War Two, plus a sort of intro in 1938. To me, it’s an inexhaustible subject for many reasons, some of which are the moral issues it confronts, its parallels to today’s wars, and the ever-present possibility of dictator-driven genocide. The novels are not connected; their commonality being ordinary people whose lives and destinies are distorted by war. Each takes place in a fictional town, itself a character, and each has an underlying theme: one art, one sport, one music, one food, one science. (The theme of the last, is, appropriately, writing itself.) They’re fast-paced, evocative and historically grounded in the very real events that characterized each year of the global conflict.
The World War One series has just begun, with Charentin, 1918 and Denderbeck, 1915 already published. As with the World War Two series, the novels are independent and unconnected. They feature not famous figures from the period, but 'ordinary' people caught up in the conflict and showing their own brand of heroism.
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