Lisbon, 1974. Journalist Jack Telford must hunt down a killer, solve a deadly riddle, renew his acquaintance with an old flame, and survive Portugal’s revolution in this taut thriller with a life-and-death finale, which Jack may survive, but only at great cost. Yet the story of the revolution is, in many ways, also the story of the music from Lisbon and Portugal that brought the country's 40-year old repressive dictatorship crashing to the … [Read more...]
Spanish Civil War – The Ebsworth Connection and a Forgotten Conflict
Whether Francis Crook Ebsworth was truly an ancestor, I’ll never know. But he died fighting for Spanish liberalism, not in the more famous civil war, which took place a century later, but in the carnage of Spain’s First Carlist War, just 180 years ago this month, in 1837. I’d already adopted Ebsworth as my pen name since it originally belonged to distant relatives and one of my cousins was researching that particular branch of the family tree. … [Read more...]
The Lisbon Labyrinth
A Jack Telford short read (novella) written and published while working on Until the Curtain Falls. Lisbon, 1974. Journalist Jack Telford must hunt down a killer, solve a deadly riddle, renew his acquaintance with an old flame, and survive Portugal’s revolution in this taut thriller with a life-and-death finale, which Jack may survive, but only at great cost. There is a dossier, upon which the whole of Portugal’s future may hang, and Jack's … [Read more...]
Sixth Century Britain – Poetry in The Song-Sayer’s Lament
Readers have been asking me about the poetry in The Song-Sayer’s Lament and whether I wrote it myself. I always take such questions cautiously because, of course, you never quite know whether it’s loving or loathing that’s prompted the query. Anyway, hands up. Yes, I wrote it all. But before I get to the poetry itself, maybe a few quick words of explanation. I wanted The Song-Sayer’s Lament to have an authentic 6th Century “feel”, but I was … [Read more...]
Spanish Civil War – New Novel, Novela de la Guerra Civil Española.
My sixth novel is a sequel to my 2013 Spanish Civil War story, The Assassin's Mark... October 1938, and a British foreign correspondent is on the run in northern Spain, hunted by three different and deadly enemies determined to kill him before he can reach the Mediterranean coast and freedom. Y aquí está el sinopsis para esta continuación de mi novela 2013, El … [Read more...]
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