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“Renzi is my favourite character”

[To leave a comment or reply go to box at the end of the page] These days, with the pervasiveness of the internet and ease of world travel for many people, an author describing locations must be very careful to get his facts right, even if he is writing about how an area was in […]

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Seaflower: Turquoise Waters, Deadly Perils

Thank you for all your kind comments on the post about my second book, ARTEMIS. The third book in the series is SEAFLOWER. There’s certainly a shock for Kydd and Renzi at the beginning of the story – the two friends are ‘turned over’; instead of being able to return to loved ones in England […]

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The Birth of a Book: CARIBBEE

[To leave a comment go right to the end of the page and just enter it in the ‘Leave a Reply’ box] CARIBBEE is the latest title in my Thomas Kydd series and as it’s officially launched into the world today it’s a pretty special time (as is true for most authors, I guess) – […]

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SEAFLOWER and CARIBBEE

[To leave a comment go right to the end of the page and just enter it in the ‘Leave a Reply’ box] More than a decade ago, in SEAFLOWER, Thomas Kydd and Nicholas Renzi were in the Caribbean as sailors before the mast in an old line-of-battle ship. Now, in CARIBBEE, Kydd, a storied hero […]

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From a reader with many miles under the keel

[To leave a comment go right to the end of the page and just enter it in the ‘Leave a Reply’ box] I’ve been very touched by the many wonderful messages I’ve received from readers recently, including this from Charles Eanes: ‘I read with interest one critic who called you “a master of Napoleonic-era atmosphere […]

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