Downfall - Book 1
Redemption - Book 2
The McIvor Gold Escort Robbery
Welcome
Glad to see you here! I hope that you will find my site informative and stimulating. My focus is on history because, as has been said many times, those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
With all that is happening in Ukraine, I felt it only appropriate to send a message with this cover page. I fervently hope that sense and humanity will prevail although I have low expectations in the near term.
My books are set in the 19th century – an age when human innovation and ambition drove the industrial revolution but also accelerated a world of inequality, crushing poverty and colonial expansion while advances in technology laid the ground for the terrible world-wide conflicts of the 20th century.
On these pages you can find information and back stories about published books and books to be published. I will also share thoughts on today’s events and on what history can teach us about likely outcomes.
Remember, Ignore history at your peril!
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The Case of the Emigrant Niece, enter Findo Gask and Erroll Rait
$1.79Taking readers back to the days of steam trains and clipper ships, gas-lit Edinburgh streets and the goldfields of Australia with the unravelling of a mystery and the discovery of a relentless murderer, The Case of the Emigrant Niece is a spellbinding novel that captures the imagination and transports you back to a different age.
“The style of this novel has more in common with Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone than with a 21st-century publication.”
Historical Novel Society
The Helots’ Tale: Book II – Redemption
$1.79How would you respond if your death sentence was commuted to life on an island prison half a world away?
Bushranger Gold: The McIvor Gold Escort Robbery
$1.22In 1853, Australia was rocked by the robbery of £6,000 of gold from an escorted shipment on a country road heading from the McIvor gold fields to Melbourne, Within days, 400 men were searching the bush for the audacious bushrangers who numbered between 6 and 15 according to the survivors. A romp across the bush and the exploration of a mystery – who was the ringleader?
Downfall: Book 1 of the Helots’ tale
$2.21Starting amongst the smog-laden streets of Victorian London, experience the life and times of Robert Bright and Mary Ann Goulding; real people caught up in the hopelessness of an unequal, class-ridden society who fight back as the new nation of Australia is forged.
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The author has skilfully woven actual events and drama with historical adventure.
I found myself transported back in time.
The author has skilfully woven actual events and drama with historical adventure.