All of you who have been waiting to find out what happens with Andrew and Niki will soon get to know. After a year of reasonably diligent activity, I have nearly completed the third book in the Out of Solitude trilogy. It has been a busy time pulling it all together for you all but I am nearly there. Another month or so should see it all done and it should then be soon available for you. I hope you…..
I have attached a US radio interview I did a few weeks ago. Enjoy the listen.
I had really written Two Tickets to Dubrovnik as a stand-alone novella. However, with the feedback I received from readers about how it could work out with the characters and my own interest in them, I considered a sequel. How to continue was the challenge. For a few months I thought about what I may do and then homed in on my times in France and the French connection in the first book. I also thought that it would…..
From the end of the first millennium, when pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela first began, The Way of St James became one of the three great pilgrimages in the Christian world – along with those to Rome and Jerusalem. Over the centuries, nine major routes developed, from The Netherlands, Denmark and Gdansk in Poland to the north, from Hungary, Austria, Croatia and two from Bari in Italy in the east, and from Lisbon in the south. Except for the Portugeses…..
For all those who enjoyed the characters from Two Tickets to Dubrovnik and would like to follow the next stage in their lives, the new sequel is now available. Based largely in France, Andrew’s travels continue through the world of wine and he eventually meets up with his friends from Dubrovnik. The wine, the romance and the intrigue continue. Enjoy!
Apart from a round-the-world trip in 1976 and two weeks in California in 1984, most of my working life had been spent in Australia and New Zealand until my first visit to the international wine exhibition, Vinexpo, in Bordeaux in 1991. Having been something of a Francophobe until then, mainly because of their arrogant political approach to the rest of the world, my views were transformed overnight. The world of wine was huge, Bordeaux was a beautiful city of history…..
I had always been an avid reader, from Biggles as a very young boy, through Rafael Sabatini and Dornford Yates when an early teenager, and moving on through the classics under my (real) brother’s influence as I grew a little older. I read across a whole range of genres, from Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings in 1964 through D H Lawrence, James, Dostoyevsky, Balzac, Steinbeck, Updike, etc., as well as a number of technical books on mathematics, sub-atomic particles…..
If you talk with anyone about the Ragusan Empire, you will almost invariably receive a blank look in response. It is not something that looms large on the stage of history or in people’s minds – and nor in mine until I started to read about it. However, it existed for over 900 years, from around the 10th century until after the First World War. Whether it merited the description of “Empire” is probably debatable.
In the first instance, it…..
Andrew is a very self-contained, self-dependent person. He has developed a life-style that is relatively isolated, at least in an emotional sense, from the world around him. He is passionate about his world of wine but far less so about the people who inhabit it and that outside. He is also a fairly conservative and non-adventurous sort of person, certainly in regard to how he lives his life and operates within the legal and cultural environments into which he comes…..
Welcome. My name is Angus Kennedy, author of Two Tickets To Dubrovnik, A View from the Languedoc, and To The East. I’m so happy to have you as a visitor to my blog about my new books. This project is very special to me, and I hope to share some of that excitement with you here.
I’ll be using this blog to interact with you about Two Tickets To Dubrovnik, A View from the Languedoc, and To The East,…..
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