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Life and everything I've ever read - even the worst book teaches you s ...more

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It's been a long and winding road... since graduating with a degree in philosophy (now that's useful...) I've been by turns plasterer's mate, holiday camp redcoat, ice cream salesman, exhibition organiser, art critic, rugby league commentator, freelance journalist, editor of the Good Beer Guide, owner of the highest pub in Great Britain and - finally! - a full-time author. It may not be an ideal career path, but it's given me a wealth of experiences that I draw on constantly in my own work.

I'm the author of over 50 published books. Under my own name I usually write narrative non-fiction a.k.a. popular history (though my sales figures suggest that it's never quite as popular as I'd like it to be...), but I have also written a serious novel, ...more

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World Tour of Yorkshire

I've been on an intermittent book tour since the start of August but, barring a couple of "outliers" next year, I reach the end of it on Thursday and Friday (12 and 13 November) with the last two dates. The first is where it all began - the story if not the book tour - with a date at Britain's highest inn, www.tanhillinn.com, where I'm looking forward to renewing some old acquaintances and making Read more of this blog post »

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Published on November 05, 2015 09:31 • Tags: arctic-monkeys, ben-rhydding, book-tour, british-sea-power, everest-windows, ilkley, pigs-might-fly, scouting-for-girls, tan-hill, wheatley-arms

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	The Inn at the Top: Tales of Life at the Highest Pub in Britain 3.66 avg rating — 529 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Custom of the Sea: A Shocking True Tale of Shipwreck, Murder, and the Last Taboo 3.93 avg rating — 449 ratings — published 1999 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unknown Soldiers: The Story of the Missing of the First World War 4.28 avg rating — 321 ratings — published 2005 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great Fire of London, in that Apocalyptic Year, 1666 3.76 avg rating — 289 ratings — published 2001 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Confident Hope of a Miracle: The True History of the Spanish Armada 4.19 avg rating — 207 ratings — published 2003 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pigs Might Fly: More Dales Tales from the author of The Inn at the Top 4.17 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	First Blitz 3.92 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dreadful Judgement 4.04 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Monk Eastman: The Gangster Who Became a War Hero 4.10 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Escape From Germany: The Greatest POW Break-Out of the First World War 3.58 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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― Neil Hanson, The Custom of the Sea

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What book about the Tudors or the Tudor world would you like for our Group Read in May 2021?

The Life of Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd

10 votes, 18.9%

Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII by Gareth Russell

9 votes, 17.0%

After Elizabeth: The Rise of James of Scotland and the Struggle for the Throne of England by Leanda de Lisle

7 votes, 13.2%

Jane the Quene by Janet Ambrosi Wertman

5 votes, 9.4%

Catherine of Aragon: An Intimate Life of Henry VIII's True Wife by Amy Licence

5 votes, 9.4%

Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth, 1527-1608 by Mary S. Lovell

4 votes, 7.5%

Falling Pomegranate Seeds: The Duty of Daughters by Wendy J. Dunn

3 votes, 5.7%

The Queen's Conjurer: The Science and Magic of Dr. John Dee, Advisor to Queen Elizabeth I by Benjamin Woolley

3 votes, 5.7%

John Dudley: The Life of Lady Jane Grey's Father-in-Law by Christine Hartweg

3 votes, 5.7%

A Dead Man in Deptford by Anthony Burgess

3 votes, 5.7%

The Confident Hope of a Miracle: The True Story of the Spanish Armada by Neil Hanson

1 vote, 1.9%

The King's Grey Mare by Rosemary Hawley Jarman

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