Novels

ANCIENT EGYPT SERIES NOVEL TRIP TO- BAHIRIYA OASIS Desert trip – Bahiriya Oasis! Heading into the Egyptian desert is wonderful. There, one loses any sense of time or worldly cares. Perhaps, like deep sea diving and flying, one is free to enjoy a new world. In 2011, however, there was a lot of telephoning ahead, […]

ANCIENT EGYPT SERIES NOVEL Egypt is on fire. There is a revolution. CNN images are omnipresent. A small team is flying into Cairo. Most people are from England. I live in New Zealand, which is a long way from a revolution of any kind. Why go to Egypt in search of Alexander? After all, he […]

ANCIENT EGYPT SERIES NOVEL We’re at the UCL Medical School in London. Historian Michael Wood is due to give a lecture, with a new film on Alexander-the-Great. His groundbreaking series In the Footsteps of Alexander-the-Great started a race to make a feature film in Hollywood. I have been adopted by some wonderful ladies, whom I […]

ANCIENT EGYPT SERIES NOVEL Alexander-the-Great appears in many art forms, including films. Most children and young people have seen at least one Alexander movie. Below, are a few examples. Perhaps you have seen one. Sikander (1941) Alexander is portrayed as an attractive man, in love with Roxanne. The film opens in Persia, with the appearance […]

ANCIENT EGYPT SERIES NOVEL Who is a wise man? Who is a strong man? Who is a rich man? Chances are, if you learned about Alexander at school, you soon discovered he was a philosopher. It’s not surprising. After all, he was a pupil of Aristotle, one of the most famous philosophers in history. A […]

ANCIENT EGYPT SERIES NOVEL Alexander-Pharaoh of Egypt is currently being written. These blog posts for the Ancient Egypt series are about the author’s decades’-long journey to the book. Before publication, readers should know something about Alexander, the journey, some of which was perilous, and the new book with its characters. So it begins … A […]

ANCIENT EGYPT SERIES NOVEL Happy New Year! At present I am writing a book entitled Alexander, Pharaoh of Egypt. Part of the Ancient Egypt series, it is currently being written and edited. As a subject, Alexander-the-Great has been on my mind since childhood. Why has it taken several decades to commit his story to print? […]

The Garden of the Gods Published in 1978 the third book in the trilogy continues the story of the Durrells on the Greek isle of Corfu. Gerald Durrell, one of the pioneers of conservation, still has a legacy that is very much alive. (Go to: https://www.durrell.org/wildlife/) The stories in this book are those which could […]

Birds Beasts and Relatives Books The Corfu Trilogy incorporates three autobiographical novels, namely My Family and Other Animals (1956), Birds, Beasts and Relatives (1969) and The Garden of the Gods (1978). Birds, Beasts and Relatives is the sequel to the bestseller, My Family and Other Animals. While it was never as famous as the first […]

My Family and Other Animals Introduction British naturalist Gerald Durrell (OBE) was born in 1925 in Jamshedpur, India. A bestselling writer, animal collector and pioneering conservationist, he would be the same age as David Attenborough now, had he lived. Unfortunately, he died in 1995 at the age of 70. Gerald Durrell was responsible for saving […]

STARS OF EGYPTOLOGY Stephen Cross is our Christmas star of 2020. A member of the Fleet Air Arm of the British Royal  Navy, he is a trained geologist. Known for his academic articles, Stephen has made several significant appearances on television where he has revealed aspects of the Valley of the Kings for the first time […]