I was most pleasantly surprised to read in a recent newsletter that somebody had not only gone to the trouble of buying and reading my books, but then gone o...

I am often asked why I chose to call my first novel, The Custom of the Trade. Given that the plot revolves around WW1 submarine operations, the answer would...

Last week, my third WW1 naval thriller, The Wings of the Wind, was published by Endeavour Media as an e-book and the paperback was brought out just before Ch...

Today is Lancashire Day when the people of Lancashire celebrate the anniversary of sending its first members to the Model Parliament of Edward I in 1295. On...

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

I was very pleased recently to receive an email from a Mr Land. His grandfather was a cousin of Admiral Earl Beatty and Mr Land was interested in my account...

As we prepare to celebrate the Armistice of November 1918, it is worth remembering that the war didn’t end on that day for all. Indeed, HMS Cassandra, a lig...

The hero of my submarine novel, The Custom of the Trade, is partially based on the exploits of Lieutenant Commander Martin Nasmith during the Dardanelles cam...

Yesterday, I was privileged to attend the memorial service at the Old Naval College, Greenwich, for my old captain in HMS Plymouth, Captain David Pentreath, ...

A continuing theme of my novels is the often unsung heroes and largely unknown activities of the Royal Navy in WW1. My aim is to bring to the fore once agai...

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 them telegram commu...

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 have decided to inc...

My third novel in the WW1 naval thriller For Those in Peril series is scheduled for publication by Endeavour Media in January 2020. It continues the Miller ...

Several readers of my WW1 submarine thriller, The Custom of the Trade, have expressed surprise at how difficult it was to detect and sink submarines during t...

This weekend, I watched a dreadful submarine film, K-19: The Widowmaker’. It had an all-star cast, including Joss Ackland, Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson, bu...

It is a well-known fact that on 4th August 1914, Great Britain declared war on Germany. However, it is less well-known that events taking place earlier that...

In my submarine thriller, The Custom of the Trade, I describe an accident in an early submarine caused by hydrogen gas. Even today, hydrogen gas can be a ki...

In my submarine thriller, The Custom of the Trade, I describe an accident in an early submarine caused by hydrogen gas. Even today, hydrogen gas can be a kil...

The forgotten, but outstandingly successful submarine campaign in the Dardanelles and Sea of Marmara, deprived the Turks of vital supplies at Gallipoli, such...

In June 1913, Winston Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty, persuaded the House of Commons that the Treasury should spend £2.2 million on a 51% stake in ...