Ask the Author: Lynn Bryant
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Lynn Bryant
That would depend entirely on whether I could get back again! I’d love to go back to the Peninsular War and meet my characters. I’d really love to meet Lord Wellington. And in the current book, I’d like to meet Lord Chatham and Sir Home Popham. But I’m not sure I’d cope with the conditions, we’ve got soft these days, so I’d like to be able to come home to hot showers and antibiotics when I was ready.
Lynn Bryant
Hi Bethan. Glad you enjoyed the book. I’m giving a release date of November for the next book as I’ve still got a fair bit of work to do on it, but if I’m finished sooner, I’ll bring it forward.
Lynn Bryant
Hi Bethan
Book 5 is about half written and I’m hoping it will be published this summer. It’s called "An Untrustworthy Army" and it is about the Battle of Salamanca and the subsequent retreat from Burgos.
I’m currently working on a book called “An Unwilling Alliance” which is set partly on the Isle of Man where I live, and also in the area around Copenhagen, covering the British bombardment of the city during 1807. The hero is a Manxman and a captain in the Royal Navy but the book will also cover the campaign from the army point of view as Sir Arthur Wellesley was in command of the reserves and Major Paul van Daan with the first battalion of the 110th is serving under him. In terms of the other books, the action takes place during “An Unconventional Officer” just after Paul’s promotion to major and before he is posted to Yorkshire and meets Anne. I’m hoping that “An Unwilling Alliance” will be published in April.
Book 5 is about half written and I’m hoping it will be published this summer. It’s called "An Untrustworthy Army" and it is about the Battle of Salamanca and the subsequent retreat from Burgos.
I’m currently working on a book called “An Unwilling Alliance” which is set partly on the Isle of Man where I live, and also in the area around Copenhagen, covering the British bombardment of the city during 1807. The hero is a Manxman and a captain in the Royal Navy but the book will also cover the campaign from the army point of view as Sir Arthur Wellesley was in command of the reserves and Major Paul van Daan with the first battalion of the 110th is serving under him. In terms of the other books, the action takes place during “An Unconventional Officer” just after Paul’s promotion to major and before he is posted to Yorkshire and meets Anne. I’m hoping that “An Unwilling Alliance” will be published in April.
Lynn Bryant
The figure stood awkwardly, silhouetted against the garish glare of the flames and Fenwick froze, trying to screw up the courage to run forward into that inferno amidst the screams of agony and cries of fear. The fire hurt his eyes and he closed them for a moment, took a deep breath and opened them again and his heart stopped because the fire had gone as if it had never been and the ruined church was silent but the figure, barely visible in the darkness, was still there.
Lynn Bryant
Soon I promise! I've got the new Regency coming out on Saturday and then I'm going to start revising A Redoubtable Citadel - it's already written. It's a big storyline, starting with the storming of Ciudad Rodrigo and finishing after Badajoz with Wellington's push into Spain. A crucial year for the war and also for Paul and Anne...
Lynn Bryant
I’ve been interested in the Peninsular War for years, but I can’t say I originally planned to be writing a series about it. I think I really got interested when I was re-reading Georgette Heyer during an illness and that led me on to some non-fiction. I enjoyed Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe books when I was a lot younger, and I started thinking about them and about the difficulties Sharpe had coming up from being an enlisted man and came up with a character who was very different - a wealthy officer who felt more comfortable round the camp fire with Wellington’s “scum of the earth”.
Lynn Bryant
Apart from a rather hefty tome about the Rifles in the Peninsular War? I’m just about to finish P F Chisholm’s latest Sir Robert Carey book which I’m loving. Over the summer I thought I might catch up with some thrillers - there’s a new Lincoln Rhyme by Jeffrey Deaver which I want to read, and I’m looking forward to the second book in Michele McGrath’s Duval series. There is also the final Amelia Peabody book from the late great Elizabeth Peters, and I think I’m now two books behind with Lindsay Davis. A lot to get through...
Lynn Bryant
Currently I'm revising the next book, 'An Unconventional Officer' which is the first in a series of historical novels set in the British army in the Peninsular War.
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