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**One More Hour of Daylight — A story of Historical Fiction set during WWII **

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My latest book is *One More Hour of Daylight*, a story of Historical Fiction set during the opening days of WWII. It follows the story of Derrick Sedgley, a seventeen-year-old from Essex who makes a single moral choice in a field one September morning in 1939 — and spends the next five years living with the consequences. From the Essex countryside to occupied France, from the mountains of Burgundy to the Pyrenees, it is a story about promises, betrayal, courage and the cost of doing the right thing too late. I am already working on the sequel, which I hope will be ready for publication towards the end of 2026.

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**One More Hour of Daylight — A story of Historical Fiction set during WWII **

Available on Kindle Unlimited

My latest book is *One More Hour of Daylight*, a story of Historical Fiction set during the opening days of WWII. It follows the story of Derrick Sedgley, a seventeen-year-old from Essex who makes a single moral choice in a field one September morning in 1939 — and spends the next five years living with the consequences. From the Essex countryside to occupied France, from the mountains of Burgundy to the Pyrenees, it is a story about promises, betrayal, courage and the cost of doing the right thing too late. I am already working on the sequel, which I hope will be ready for publication towards the end of 2026.

And for those of you who have been waiting patiently — and I know you are out there — the third book in the Pendragon Saga, *Shadow's Heir*, will be published in October 2026. More on that very soon.

If you have read my previous work, you will have noticed that most of it has been fantasy — pure fantasy or historical fantasy — and that my years travelling through Asia, India, Africa and the Middle East have a habit of finding their way onto the page. I have seen and done some fairly strange things along the way and met some extraordinary characters, so writing fantasy has always felt, to me, only a short step from writing fact. *The Flight of the Griffin* was longlisted in the 2015 Times Chicken House Writing Competition, which was a wonderful early marker that the stories were finding their readers. *Shadowland*, the first book in the Pendragon Saga, has now received over 900 five-star reviews on Amazon — something that still genuinely astonishes me and for which I am deeply grateful.

When I started *Shadowland* I had every intention of keeping it grounded in historical reality, but then came the druids, and then one of the main characters discovered an unsettling affinity with wolves, and historical fiction became historical fantasy almost before I noticed. It has turned out to be a popular book, so I will not complain.

*One More Hour of Daylight* marks a departure: pure historical fiction, no druids, no wolves. Just one young man, an occupied continent, and a promise he should not have made.

I was born in England and grew up in the Essex countryside, which is a beautiful part of the world up near the Suffolk border — and which, as it happens, is where Derrick Sedgley grows up too. I suspect the flat fields, the big skies and the particular quality of Essex light found their way into the book whether I intended them to or not.

I was born, however, with a serious case of travel lust. As soon as I could get a passport, I packed a rucksack and went to see what the world looked like. I have been looking ever since.

I am now very happily settled just outside Barcelona, with my wonderful wife and partner in life, Adriana.

I have lived more years outside England than I ever spent living there. It is, after all, a great big exciting world.

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“Of course I have fear, lad, but it's fear that makes me the most terrifying warrior on the battlefield. More importantly, it's fear that will keep me alive. My love of life is too great to die here today. The secret is not to deny your fear. Everyone on this hill holds fear in his belly. The mark of a warrior is how he deals with it.”
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