Chris Oswald's Blog

I was tempted to write this as a recipe, take a tablespoon of history and add a dash of fiction, heat while stirring, that sort of stuff. But then I thought that might trivialise what is a wonderful thing and I’ve come to enjoy creating so much. I started writing...

Coming Soon:   All to the Sword Book 5 in the Dorset Chronicles   Release Date: Tuesday 25thMay   A letter comes for Henry, Earl of Sherborne. It contains an invitation. Grace, the countess, takes it upon herself to extend that invitation to her wider...

It's been a little quiet in recent months but all that's about to change. In between various business activities I've been writing and writing and writing some more. Now I'm getting ready for a spate of releases in 2021. Here they are: Every Male Under Seventy -...

Delighted to get the following review for A New Lease on Freedom, first in the Dorset Chronicles Series. Here goes: This is a lovely historical novel set in Dorset’s intimate geography which the author is obviously very familiar. The evocation of place makes you want...

Tuesday 8th December The Feast of the Immaculate Conception and also launch day for my new book You are invited to join me at 5.30pm on Zoom If you have a question about the book or my writing that you'd like to ask during the session, please let me know when you...

Start of Term     “God was bored.” His deep, rich voice carried across the room of sober-suited students. “So God created the world. It did not take long, even with all the bits and pieces to take care of; the little things like ants, cricket bats, colours and long...

                                                                       The book you’ve been waiting for                                                                             (only you did not know it). God Was Boredis a thought-provoking thriller set in the...

So much is going on at the moment, anyone could easily forget that we are also in a process of leaving a bureaucracy that many have spent much of their lives within. Negotiating with the EU is never easy. But think for just a moment what it was like for George...

So, who are the Beat Kids?   It goes back to 1959 and the Great Clampdown. The Resistance, under the leadership of Mike Jazz, were getting cocky, daring to do things they had never done before. The authorities had no choice; they had to clamp down. Order must be...

In a deliberate echo of the Cavern made famous by the Beatles, the youngest members of the Resistance have their own cavern, a series of them and really caves, deep below the surface of southeast London. This is the story of the Beat Kids from The Stuff of Heroes, a...