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...
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....
