by Mark Simmons | Jan 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
Let’s give the book its full title ‘Agent Cicero: Hitler’s most successful Spy’ was first published by Spellmount, an imprint of The History Press in 2014 up to then my third book with them. I loved the cover and still do. This book was a slow...
by Mark Simmons | Jan 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
I always like to re-read an old favourite book during the year the last book of last year I read was John Steinbeck’s masterpiece East of Eden. Looking at my old battered paperback edition it is the 5th time I have read it. Although I’m sure somehow it is...
by Mark Simmons | Dec 13, 2024 | Uncategorized
So we played Rangers again last night almost 62 years to the day and I have been supporting the Lillywhites that long. Nine years old I was living in Scotland in 1962 Dad was in the Navy serving on the submarine depot ship HMS Maidstone, at the Faslane Submarine base....
by Mark Simmons | Dec 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
The author Nevil Shute was many things in his varied life other than a much loved writer, who can forget classics like The Far Country or A Town like Alice. Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 1899 – 12 January 1960) was an English novelist and aeronautical...
by Mark Simmons | Dec 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
