#Historicalfiction

Shaun Lewis

On Lancashire Day let's remember a Lancashire hero

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

Shaun Lewis

Another example of screenwriters' distortion of history and defamation of heroes

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

Shaun Lewis

An unsung hero of WW1 - Fleet Paymaster Charles John Ehrhardt Rotter

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...

Shaun Lewis

Ungentlemanly conduct in the Baltic

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...

Shaun Lewis

THE ADMIRALTY BUYS A PERSIAN OIL FIELD

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

Shaun Lewis

ANNOUNCING MY NEW HISTORICAL THRILLER - DUE OUT 17 DECEMBER 2018

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...

Shaun Lewis

My Next Book - Now the Darkness Gathers

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...

Shaun Lewis

Praise from fellow authors for my first novel

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...