Author Tom Kane

Historical Fiction: Walking Away from Midnight – Sample Chapter 9

Walking Away from Midnight Tappity-Tap It was a warm evening and Jessie had decided to leave her two sets of bedroom windows open, to facilitate a breeze into her bedroom. Otherwise, she knew, it would be hard to get to sleep […]

ADMIN-TOMNovember 10, 2022December 13, 2022

Historical Fiction: Walking Away from Midnight – Sample Chapter 8

Walking Away from Midnight Click on #WalkingAwayFromMidnight to see all available extracts Shots in the Dark The drive of two hundred kilometres from Paris was going to take over three hours, mainly in the dark. But the Fordhams weren’t bothered with […]

ADMIN-TOMNovember 1, 2022November 1, 2022

Quasimodo Taps his Clangers

Once upon a time, when I was a mere tiny tearaway lad and the world was a much simpler place, my family had an upright piano in the dining room. If you have no idea what an upright piano looks like, then […]

ADMIN-TOMSeptember 1, 2022September 1, 2022

Party Time! Down at the Chemo Disco

At my chemo session the other day, I was all ears at the commotion going on in the next room. Mine was a four-hour chemo drip session. I felt like a plastic container for a Johnson & Johnson product. But while this […]

ADMIN-TOMAugust 31, 2022October 31, 2022

An Historical Journey in Writing – The Brittle Saga Trilogy

The Brittle Sea is part of a trilogy and is about love, hope, mental health, and a determination to overcome adversity. Book 1 opens with the main female character, young Magda Asparov. Her father has arranged for her to marry wealthy New […]

ADMIN-TOMAugust 28, 2022October 31, 2022

Aspects of History: Technology and the Titanic

Aspects of History: Technology and the Titanic Ned Parfett, the young lad shown in the image above, was a 15-year-old newspaper seller in London. When he was handed copies of the Evening News to sell, he also received a large poster that […]

ADMIN-TOMAugust 20, 2022October 31, 2022

Historical Fiction: Walking Away from Midnight – Sample Chapter 7

Walking Away from Midnight Click on #WalkingAwayFromMidnight to see all available extracts The Man in Black The lane running alongside the Fordham house, close to Roc la Tour, led south to Tournavaux or west to Monthermé in the Ardennes Forest. It […]

ADMIN-TOMAugust 16, 2022November 1, 2022

Historical Fiction: Walking Away from Midnight – Sample Chapter 6

Walking Away from Midnight Click on #WalkingAwayFromMidnight to see all available extracts Ouvrage Schoenenbourg At the fortified outpost of Ouvrage Schoenenbourg, part of the fortifications that made up the Maginot Line, the Germans were playing with Capitaine Bertold’s small company of […]

ADMIN-TOMAugust 14, 2022November 1, 2022

Historical Fiction: Walking Away from Midnight – Sample Chapter 5

Walking Away from Midnight Click on #WalkingAwayFromMidnight to see all available extracts July 1939 – Basil Shoots the Breeze It was a long drive and Basil, being Basil, decided he needed to stop as the light was fading. Truth be known, […]

ADMIN-TOMAugust 3, 2022November 1, 2022

Historical Fiction: Walking Away from Midnight – Sample Chapter 4

Walking Away from Midnight Click on #WalkingAwayFromMidnight to see all available extracts Secrets Albert steered his Citroen 7 through the wide street of the Rue de Rivoli, turning left into a side street. The erratic swish-swash of the windscreen wipers toiling […]

ADMIN-TOMAugust 3, 2022November 1, 2022

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