The Next Hundred Years

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I’m retreating from the battlefield of social media. It’s almost impossible to get through a day on there without being confronted with unchallenged untruths or gaslighting goons... ‘A Hundred Years to Arras’ was published in 2021 by Unbound. I had begun writing it in 1917, a hundred years after the battle itself. In 2026, the novel is being republished by Wilton Square... Read the rest on Substack. Please read, share and subscribe. It's free!

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