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After an absence of several years I’m returning to the Roman world. On July 30, Turner Publishing will release my biography of Rome’s third emperor, CALIGULA,The Mad Emperor of Rome, [...]

I’m delighted to learn that HEROES OF HAMEL is one of four books shotlisted for the Mark and Evette Moran Nib Military History Prize in Sydney. The winner will be announced at a function at [...]

The release of the new movie ‘First Man,’ the story of first man on the moon Neil Armstrong and the 1969 lunar landing, reminds me of when my wife Louise and I met and worked with [...]

By coincidence, out of the blue last week I was contacted by Brian Kenning of Washington DC. In the late 1970s Brian was a member of the crew of Robert Stigwood’s super-yacht [...]

This coming Saturday, September 15, 2018, I’ll be on stage at the Tamar Valley Writers Festival in Tasmania with my friend Ron Stigwood, nephew and former assistant to legendary music, [...]

One of my US publishers, Open Road Media, occasionally does special offers on e-book versions of some of my books, offering them for one day only for US$1.99. The promotion always generates [...]

This is Louise and myself at the Toronto Library for the History Illuminated literary festival on September 1. Held annually at Lake Macquarie, a 90 minute drive north of Sydney, History [...]

I’m always surprised how few authors take along their wives or partners when they’re guests of literary events. I know that travel costs and the partner’s work or family [...]

Back in March, 2018, my wife Louise and I attended Adelaide Writers Week. This was the second year in a row that I was on the program of Australia’s most prestigious writers festival. In [...]

Since it was released on May 30 my new WWI book HEROES OF HAMEL: The Australians and Americans Whose WWI Victory Changed Modern Warfare, has grabbed attention around Australia leading up to and [...]