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326 pages, Hardcover
Published July 7, 2021
Thomas Hamby, who writes as D B Thomas, was born in Tennessee USA. He is primarily of English and Scottish heritage. He shares his time with his Finnish born spouse between Florida and Finland. He is an actor and a writer.
In 2020, Thomas found himself engaged with an unfinished story. He was well acquainted with Jane Austen’s major novels, but the incomplete Sanditon, which she had put aside after writing only a few chapters shortly before her death, had not been in his lexicon until the Red Planet Pictures television series, Sanditon Season 1, was released in 2019. That series led to his first novel, Sanditon on Reflection, to complete the story as he imagined Jane Austen might have written it. It was published in Italian as Ricordi di Sanditon.
Holding Bachelor of Arts and Master of Science degrees, Thomas is a retired diplomat, highlights of which are meeting three USA Presidents, several foreign heads of state and while serving in London, had the honour and pleasure of being presented to Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, with whom he had a captivating, if brief, conversation about the importance of agriculture to the past and future of civilization.