My thanks to my lifelong friend, Dr Paul Brooksby, who felt inspired to donate a copy of Forest Brothers to the Shetland Bus museum in Scalloway. I don’t know what they made of it! The Norwegian navy were based in Shetland during the war and launched resiatnace operations to Nazi-occupied Norway. Their exploits are legendary […]
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Finnish Boys – the next novel
Q. So what’s it about? A. It’s a prequel to the novel ‘Forest Brothers’. It is set in 1941 during the first Soviet invasion and starts on the eve of the Red Terror, when 10,000 people were deported to Siberia. the story ends where Forest Brothers begins – on the shores of the North coast, […]
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Kautla
Kautla is a forest. Kautla is a lake. Kautla is also a land of great serenity and great pain. I had asked to visit this place, lying south of Tallinn and just off the road to Tartu. It is part of Kõrvemaa and one of many places that combines large farming fields with dense forests. It was […]
Should anyone in Estonia want to purchase copies of Forest Brothers, please get in touch via the comments section of this website. I am able to distribute them without international charges. Either collect for 8.50 EU or by Eesti postage for 12.00 EU. Your order query won’t be posted on the site! I will just […]
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.570875576308312.1073741831.154003814662159&type=1 Last Monday, I popped into Talinn Airport to donate a copy of Forest Brothers. The facebook link is above! The idea is travellers can pick up (or donate) a copy of a book to the library as they pass through. They have set aside a nice area, surrounded by bookshelves (naturally!) and furnished with […]
http://estonianworld.com/culture/david-drummond-on-the-singing-revolution-at-tedx-houses-of-parliament-2013-uk/ – A truly wonderful tribute to the Estonian independent spirit during the darker Soviet times. I recommend you listen, it is history we chose to ignore at the time
I am over in Estonia on a short visit. It is nice to see the old wooden buildings as we drive past. It is a shame some never seem to get restored, it is structures like that and the really beautiful medieval centre that makes Tallinn. Dodging trams and trolleybuses and generally german made cars, […]
http://www.literaturewales.org/writers-of-wales/i/143354/desc/roberts-geraint/ Available for weddings, bar-mitzvahs, cabaret…
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You want to go where?
‘It’s a swamp, why do you want to go there?’ ‘There’s a memorial, to a battle. A pretty famous one, can you tell me where it is?’ And so I end up searching the google map for a village called Ardu, a name that deserves to have a whisky christened after it, and down some […]
There are ideas running around in my mind for the next project. I have a few Welsh based novels either ready or at some level of completion. However, the story around Forest Brothers and the interest in Estonia has been such, it would be a shame not to keep the momentum going. I’ve therefore embarked […]