Category Archives: Authors

Georgette Heyer’s ‘An Infamous Army’

Posted on December 30, 2016 by G. A. Michael Sims

In the original 1937 edition of Georgette Heyer’s ‘An Infamous Army’ there is an ‘author’s note’ in which she refers to the bibliography at the end of the book listing over fifty accounts, collections of letters, autobiographies, etc. of Wellington … Continue reading →

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Historical Lowestoft lithograph

Posted on November 28, 2014 by G. A. Michael Sims

I was very tempted with this today. Lot no. 2 in Key’s auction of East Anglian Art at Aylsham was described as a mid-19th Century hand-coloured lithograph, after J. Reid and engraved by F. Jones, a ‘View of the New … Continue reading →

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Edward Seago and Pegasus

Posted on September 30, 2014 by G. A. Michael Sims

Recently I was privileged to be able to visit the Dutch House, the home and studio of the artist Edward Seago at Ludham in Norfolk. For those unfamiliar with him Edward Seago was born in Norwich, the younger son of … Continue reading →

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‘A Passage to Sword Beach’ by Brendan A. Maher

Posted on August 20, 2013 by G. A. Michael Sims

One of the joys of selling second-hand books is the opportunity to read your stock. When cataloguing I try to summarise the content of all our non-fiction but occasionally you come across one that you dip into and just can’t … Continue reading →

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Robert S. Arbib Jnr. – Here we are together

Posted on November 3, 2012 by G. A. Michael Sims

I have only recently discovered the recollections of an American serving with 820th Engineer Aviation Battalion, Staff Sergeant Robert S. Arbib, Jnr., called ‘Here we are together’. Robert Arbib relates his experiences in Great Britain during WW2 when he and … Continue reading →

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Dornford Yates and C. W. Stamper

Posted on July 27, 2010 by G. A. Michael Sims

In 1913 Mills and Boon published a book called ‘What I Know’, by C. W. Stamper, the memoirs of a chauffeur/motor engineer to King Edward VII from 1905-10, with an acknowledgement in the foreword to Dornford Yates ‘but for whose … Continue reading →

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Engineer and Novelist Nevil Shute (Norway) – A brief account

Posted on October 18, 2009 by G. A. Michael Sims

(…originally published in the ibooknet newsletter for October 2004) Nevil Shute Norway was born 17th January 1899 at Ealing, London, the youngest of two brothers and the son of a senior civil servant in the General Post Office. At an … Continue reading →

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