A word can change a mind. A sentence can change a life. A book can change the world.
I’m not a great lover of romance books, but inevitably with a trilogy like The Brittle Sea, The Brittle Land and The Brittle Sky, a romance was the key factor that brought two star-crossed lovers together.
Add a couple of baddies you will love to hate and the backdrop a life in the USA between 1912-1960s and romance will always be in there, festering away.
The secrets of a small village lie hidden in the ruins, waiting to be discovered by a brave young archeologist. Essi Zeltsmann is an ambitious archeologist who returns to her home village, now lying in ruins. She is determined to uncover the truth behind her mother’s mysterious death and prove her innocence. As she searches…
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 the picture herein should give the game away. And no, the girl is…
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 drip was being dripped, I was listening to another drip in the room…
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 York businessman Matthew Turner III and she is travelling, alone, from Ukraine to…
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 he would hold up to display the headlines that evening. On that day,…
Extract from The Brittle Land, Book Two in The Brittle Saga Trilogy. It was the soft sound of her own gentle snoring that woke her. She sat up and looked around, blinking the sleep from her eyes. She seemed to be in an office. She yawned and looked around again, suddenly realising she recognised nothing….
Rescue Mission A disaster at sea is every sailor’s nightmare, but when the disaster happened to someone else and you have failed to give assistance, that would have repercussions. “A message, you say. A distress call, no less, that has taken,” the Captain paused and looked at the top of the notepaper, “almost two hours…
A Disaster Unfolds The ship ploughed its way through the dark and still waters of the northern Atlantic, heedless of any danger to itself. Her captain had called for full power and her crew had obliged obediently. In the time before the dawn, all those on board who were awake knew something was amiss. A…
April 14-15, 1912 Magda was content as the mighty ship ploughed forcefully through the sea and she walked gracefully along the ship’s promenade deck. It was dark and cold, but the gay music from the ballroom washed over her and Magda reflected on her soon to be new life. She smiled at a passing ship’s…
Magda’s Journey – April 1912 She was born Magda and her name became synonymous with early 20th Century American history. But in ways that nobody understood, Magda will be lost, and Maggie will replace her. But, for now, in this brief fraction of time that is being played out before us, we will call her…
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