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Mike Lewis

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Mike Lewis hails from the former fishing village of Aberporth, west Wales, where his family farmed for generations.
Having joined a local newspaper straight from school, he proceeded to work as a writer and sub-editor on a number of national titles in London, including The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph.
Having returned to his native west Wales to raise a family, he stumbled across the story of William James, the west Wales farmer's son who fought at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, which inspired his first historical fiction novel 'If God Will Spare My Life...'
His second historical fiction novel - The Icarus Ascent: Ghosts of the Matterhorn - relates the story of the notorious fall on the mountain in 1865...as seen
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Mike Lewis Living in remote west Wales I was surprised to learnt that a man who fought at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June 1876 once lived nearby. I bega…moreLiving in remote west Wales I was surprised to learnt that a man who fought at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June 1876 once lived nearby. I began researching the story of William Batine James, wondered what kind of person he was and, most importantly, what compelled a west Wales farmer's son to leave his home and emigrate to the United States to ultimately enlist in the US Seventh Cavalry? Later, I traced a series of letters James had sent home to his youngest brother - these form the framework of IGWSML...(less)
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So What's It All About?

"WHAT'S it all about" is that famous line spoken by Michael Caine in 'Alfie' the celebrated 1966 film set in Swinging London made all the more memorable by Cilla Black's moving and evocative title track of the same name, plus the somewhat weird and downbeat ending on Embankment.

There were occasional times during my now-distant days in London where I'd find myself wandering along that same river pa Read more of this blog post »
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“They say you drink to forget, yet all the drink did was make me remember all the bad things I'd done; and all the bad things that were done to me.”
Mike Lewis, 'If God Will Spare My Life...'

“How slender is the rope upon which the dreams of all men hang!" (The Icarus Ascent: Ghosts of the Matterhorn).”
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