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Resistance by Owen Sheers – Book and Movie Review

Resistance, written by Owen Sheers and published in 2007, is a literary alternative history novel set in 1944 in a Wales occupied by Nazi German troops. There was…

633 Squadron – Novel and Movie Review

633 Squadron, written by Frederick E. Smith and published in 1956, was the source novel for the classic 1963 war movie of the same name. Although it’s not…

Come Into My Parlour – Novel Review

Come Into My Parlour, written by Dennis Wheatley and published in 1949, was the sixth of Dennis Wheatley’s novels featuring secret agent Gregory Sallust—a series that critics sometimes…

Fair Stood the Wind for France – Book Review

Fair Stood the Wind for France, written by H. E. Bates and published in 1944, was Bates’ first commercially successful novel. Although not strictly an espionage novel, it includes…

Alternative History Vehicles in A Kill in the Morning

One of the best things about writing alternative history novels is putting my characters in the cockpit of my favourite alternative history vehicles. I think there’s something fascinating about being able to…

Ministry of Fear – Book Review

Ministry of Fear, written by Graham Greene and published in 1943, is one of only two novels he published during World War Two, when he was working for MI6….

A Kill in the Morning Paperback – Launch Day!

Exciting news – the A Kill in the Morning paperback is out today! This morning, I found it nicely displayed in my local book shop: My Journey I’ve…

Iron Sky: Movie Review

Iron Sky is a 2012 alternate history black comedy about a world where the Nazis fled to the moon in 1945. In 2018 they invade Earth. It was…

Wolfenstein: the New Order – Game Review

Wolfenstein: The New Order is a video game developed by Machine Games and released in 2014. It’s a first person shooter set in an alternate history where Nazi Germany won…

The Sound of His Horn – Book Review

The Sound of His Horn, written by ‘Sarban’ (the pen name of British writer John William Wall) and published in 1952 was one of the first alternate history novels set…