"I am haunted by this history but I also haunt it back."
Tag: history
You Will Be Safe Here
“Above all this the stars shine."
Milkman
“At the time, age eighteen, having been brought up in a hair-trigger society where the ground rules were – if no physically violent touch was being laid upon you, and no outright verbal insults were being levelled at you, and no taunting looks in the vicinity either, then nothing was happening, so how could you be under attack from something that wasn’t there? At eighteen I had no proper understanding of the ways that constituted encroachment.”
Welsh Saints On The Mormon Trail
Historical fiction of the Welsh Saints who made their way to Salt Lake City in the 1800s.
The Native Commissioner
“If you could read the secret history of your enemies, you should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostilities.”
The Long And Short Of It
A collection of short stories of The Chronicles of St Mary's.
The Kite Runner
“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime."
Rule Britannia
A historical thriller which ticks all the boxes of a fast-paced, mysterious romp in London 1939.
The Help
“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
Born A Crime
“People love to say, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” What they don’t say is, “And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod.” That’s the part of the analogy that’s missing.”
