Historical Fiction

Mum was aged thirty when she had me. She’d already lost her first-born son, which sounds like a form of carelessness, as if she’d put him in a reed...

. Father’s Hard Times By Paul McCann My Father’s people came from Ireland , that’s the place were I was born . I lived out my childhood days in a...

Here is an excerpt from Moffat III, very much a work in progress. I am unsure whether it will see the light of day at all. It is between titles at the moment, it might be called At the Back of the North Wind or The Jedermann Characteristic. I'd guess at 44,000-odd words (yes, some of them very odd, heard that one before, thank you!) I'm somewhere between 2/5 and 1/2 the way to the end of a first draft. Anyway, here is an excerpt.

The fine young Lady and her maid from 'She Who Would Valiant Be' continue their adventure.