What can I say about this book? The Last Five Swords returns to the type of epic fantasy I loved as a boy. Black and white images and short introductions at the start of each chapter returned me to authors like Jeffrey Farnol and Robert Jordan. Little mores written in Gaelic with a translation lendContinue reading “The Last Five Swords – John De Búrca”
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Phil Hughes
The following interviews were conducted after the release of The Alcoholic Mercenary. Interview 1 This interview was conducted by EJ from BusyWords: My guest today is Phil Hughes, who published his 17th historical novel last month, The Alcoholic Mercenary. I was interested to meet him because he achieved what many of us dream of inContinue reading “Phil Hughes”
Time to Say Goodnight
Time to say goodnight to Napoli, from that timeless classic Buona Sera Signorina by Louis Prima lends itself to the title of a series of Mediterranean Noir tales set in the Naples of the nineteen seventies. In the first of the series, you can follow the exploits of a detective who wants to make aContinue reading “Time to Say Goodnight”
The Reticent Detective Synopsis
Due for release in the autumn: “We are all outside the law, just some of us are further out than others.” Laconto is a police inspector with a past he does not want to discuss. He’d graduated the academy with ideals buoyed by innocence, only to have them crushed by policing a quasi-dystopian state, ruledContinue reading “The Reticent Detective Synopsis”
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