When I was doing research for my 2007 novel Journeys to the End of the World one of my reference books was The South African Forces in France by John Buchan (Thomas Nelson and Sons 1920). Buchan was a man of many parts – army officer, Governor-General of Canada, and...
Many people who see this post will have read The Leopard – I read it for the first time in 1982 and have gone back to it several times in the past 30+ years. For me it is one of the few novels that is truly unforgettable. Set in Sicily in 1860 during the...
This is a remarkable yet unsatisfying novel – a tragedy within a tragedy, yet a triumph within a triumph. The story is set in France during the German occupation of World War 2 – and it was actually written during the occupation by someone who would not survive the...
