by Mark Simmons | Jun 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
My wife and I had a wonderful relaxing week on Lake Garda, good food and wine and weather. In our walks around Garda Town where we stayed, and yes the town does give its name to the Lake. One day following the lake shore towards San Vigilio heading basically north we...
by Mark Simmons | May 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
Battle for the Narrows Assault from the Sea ‘I had a most indelible impression that we were in the presence of a beaten foe. I thought he was beaten at 2 p.m. I knew he was beaten at 4 p.m.-and at midnight I knew with still greater certainty that he was...
by Mark Simmons | Apr 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
by Mark Simmons | Apr 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
Rebel City awaiting publishers approval so ready to take pre-orders at £16 post free. Here is an extract to wet your appetite Chapter 1 Benjamin Augustus Pascoe All are gone now, even his dear Leone. Bulloch his friend not so long ago was buried in Toxteth Park...
by Mark Simmons | Apr 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
Mary Elizabeth Wright Prioleau is one of the historical figures that appears in my new book ‘Rebel City: A Story of Liverpool during the American Civil War.’ Called the Belle of Allerton Hall did her portrait once hang at the hall painted by the artist...
by Mark Simmons | Mar 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
My new historical novel ‘Rebel City: A story of Liverpool during the American Civil War’ will be published soon. ‘There it is the city of Liverpool says Henry Kitto, master of the Hannah Leigh stood beside Ben Pascoe, ‘a cesspool of humanity...
by Mark Simmons | Mar 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
by Mark Simmons | Mar 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
First published by Raider International in 2010 in hardback, a paperback edition was published by CompletleyNovel in 2016 and again in paperback by Amazon in 2021. The novel was praised by The Western Morning News as ‘A stylishly pacy novel.’ While an Amazon...
by Mark Simmons | Feb 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
Yesterday the 13 February singed the contract with Pen & Sword books to publish my new title ‘With the Commandos: The Drive into Hitler’s Reich, November 1944-June 1945.’ Hopefully will be out for the 80th anniversary so the summer. It tells the...
by Mark Simmons | Feb 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
My two Cyprus books have been selling well ‘From the Foam of the Sea’ a novel set largely on the island first published in 2007 and now out in a new edition. It has been compared to the work of Alistair MacLean and Desmoid Bagley. My non-fiction book The...