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On the Trail of Sherlock Holmes

Release Date: 28 February 2022

THE FIRST REVIEWS ARE IN – please see section in Blog

To purchase, please go to
https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/On-the-Trail-of-Sherlock-Holmes-Hardback/p/20535

Listen to my reading of The Prologue in the book here

Featured Books

Norwich and Norfolk – Stone Age to the Great War

This is the first study yet published to trace the history of Norwich and Norfolk from the time of earliest life to the outbreak of the First World War.
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Norfolk at War 1939-45

A year-on-year account of the war at home and overseas as it affected Norfolk 1939-45. It is illustrated with 300 pictures, charts and diagrams.
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Norfolk - Exploring the Land of Wide Skies

In this superb book two locals set out to explore the county through words and photographs in order to bring to the reader, be they local or visitor, the best places in Norfolk to investigate for themselves. There’s no other place like it, and no other book quite like this one.
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The Peddars Way and North Norfolk Coast Path

This is a walks book with a difference. A guide that is both useful and entertaining – a book the reader can refer to before starting out to decide which part of the trail to follow, something to take with them on a longer walk, or to sit back with on their return to remind them of all they have seen.
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Public Talks

I regularly give illustrated talks on both world wars as they affected Norfolk and on Charles Dickens to local history and literature groups, libraries and clubs of various kinds. If you would like to contact me about giving a talk to your group, please use the ‘Contact Me’ feature of this website and I will be delighted to get back to you immediately.
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