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Kurt’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Kurt’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Freedom. And it helps you enjoy the long, slow slide into penury without the stigma of unemployment.
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I stop writing and take a break. I build scale models as a hobby, so I can immerse myself in other things besides writing. It has worked up to now!
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Incendiary has landed!
Incendiary is now available on all e-book platforms and Amazon paperback.
Incendiary is a chilling suspense thriller that begins with the escape of a mysterious creature codenamed Horla from top-secret captivity. But it is the tensions and pressures on the human characters that really sets the suspenseful tone.
Dr Mel Villiers is a thirty-ish bioscientist working at the UK's top secret Porton Down r Read more of this blog post »
Incendiary is a chilling suspense thriller that begins with the escape of a mysterious creature codenamed Horla from top-secret captivity. But it is the tensions and pressures on the human characters that really sets the suspenseful tone.
Dr Mel Villiers is a thirty-ish bioscientist working at the UK's top secret Porton Down r Read more of this blog post »
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"This is an amazing and exciting story which gripped me right until the end. It’s December 1889 and Captain Will Hutton arrives at the port of Greenock where his ship the Irex is about to make its maiden voyage to Rio de Janeiro. Aboard the ship are t"
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"Who doesn’t love a good story set on or around the high seas? I know I do! Add to that the fact that there is a mystery and you have a combination that made me sign up for this tour extremely quickly!
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"I was interested to see you have written about the Irex shipwreck. My great-grandfather was the Mackin (strangely spelt Machin in some of the newspaper reports) the Lighthouse keeper/Coastguard who descended on the breeches buoy to rescue the lad stu"
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“Be small … and you will escape the jealousy of the great.”
― The Man in the High Castle
― The Man in the High Castle
“The brigade fought to the end with great courage, winning the admiration of the Germans. But the continuing failure of British commanders to counter-attack in force from the west was one of the least impressive examples of generalship in the war.”
― The Second World War
― The Second World War
“We were too tired to help. Above 8,000 meters is not a place where people can afford morality.”
― Into Thin Air
― Into Thin Air
“All men who participate in wars find themselves obliged to do things which, if they are decent people, they afterwards regret.”
― Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45
― Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45
“Day names and the concept of weeks were human inventions, useless, really. Without culture only seasons mattered, the solstices and equinoxes.”
― Gray: The Complete Collection
― Gray: The Complete Collection
