I am currently researching and writing two books which I hope will be published by mid 2026. the first is entitled, The Bootmaker's Daughter - Maid of Kent and is the true story of my maternal grandmother who grew up in Victorian times and experienced life under six British Monarchs. Ethel Pocock is the co-star of my first book, For God England & Ethel but her story is as compelling as my grandfather's, Fred Johnstone. The second book is the reproduction of a WW1 Training Handbook on how to rig the wings of several British military aircraft of the time. The book will include drawings as well as 'step by step' instructions.

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Another writing project on the 'drawing board' is a factual novel set in Iraq during the nineteen-twenties, highlighting the dangers and depravations experienced by the Royal Air Force squadrons based in Baghdad "between the wars". The fighting in Mesopotamia is a largely forgotten conflict, as are the deaths of hundreds of Royal Air Force and British Army personnel whose bodies lie in a deserted and unprotected RAF cemetery at Hinaidi, a southern suburb of Baghdad, compared to hundreds of other servicemen who died during the same conflict but by chance were buried at the well-tended war cemeteries at Baghdad North Gate and Habbaniya, both of which have been recently refurbished by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The provisional title for the book is Above the Sands of Iraq.

 

The six books already published are Rising from the Flanders Mud, Over the Western Front  (the story of 6 Squadron which fought over the Western Front during the Great War), For God, England & Ethel (a biography of my grandfather who served with 6 Squadron during WW1), Seven Days in April (a Royal Flying Corps historical novel in the genre of a murder / mystery), Leaning on a Lamp Post (an autobiography covering the early part of my life in the UK, shortly after the end of WW2) and A Man of Many Letters, All can be purchased from Amazon in most countries or direct from Feed-a-Read.