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November 12, 2025

Historia interview: David Gilman

David Gilman’s new novel, Rage of Swords, is the latest in his Master of War series and sees Thomas Blackstone in action in Italy. David tells Historia about the ideas and research behind his…
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Published on November 12, 2025 23:45

November 15, 2024

LoveReading Books of the Year

Pleased to announce that LoveReading Books has included the latest Master of War novel -'To Kill A King' - as one of their Books of the Year for 2023-2024.And it goes along with an…
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Published on November 15, 2024 04:37

September 11, 2024

Historical Novel Society 2024 conference

I was invited to attend a panel discussion at the HNS 2024 conference in the great hall at Dartington in Devon—two days of writers speaking and a broad audience from around the world. I was on a…
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Published on September 11, 2024 06:43

February 5, 2024

The Hundred Years’ War – a novel approach (Historia Magazine)

Family arguments can stir up trouble and sometimes go beyond a family member not being invited to the next birthday bash. In the case of Isabella, the Queen Mother to young Edward III, it led to…
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Published on February 05, 2024 03:22

January 25, 2024

To Kill a King - Review on LoveReading

Liz Robinson of LoveReading.co.uk has posted this wonderful review of To Kill a King prior to it's release on the first of February “Here we are at the eighth in the immensely powerful and…
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Published on January 25, 2024 02:56

September 6, 2022

Master of War USA audio

Tantor Media in the USA record my audio editions for the Master of War series. They present very striking covers their CD boxes. Here's an example of the first three books in the series.
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Published on September 06, 2022 02:38

August 3, 2022

The Englishman & Betrayal

The Englishman and the second book in the series - BETRAYAL - that is being published on 4th August in paperback are being flagged on social media. There's a price deal on BETRAYAL Kindle…
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Published on August 03, 2022 06:08

July 27, 2022

Betrayal paperback edition

The paperback edition of BETRAYAL, the second book in The Englishman series is published in the UK on 4th August featuring former French Foreign Legionnaire Dan Raglan, During my research for the…
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Published on July 27, 2022 08:54

January 21, 2022

Betrayal and Kennedy Space Center

Part of my research trip to the USA for my second thriller BETRAYAL in The Englishman series took me to Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center. Here are a few thoughts and...

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Published on January 21, 2022 07:02

January 4, 2022

The Pentagon

​My personal memento of the private tour I had inside the Pentagon.

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Published on January 04, 2022 04:38