Derek Wilson is a well-established popular academic historian with over 60 books and numerous articles, TV and radio programme to his credit. He specialises in the personalities, ideas and conflicts of the Reformation. He is also an enthusiastic writer of crime fiction. Sometimes he manages to wear these two hats at the same time, as in The First Horseman, to be published by Little Brown’s Crime Vault this August.
What the Devil!
Derek’s latest book is
Magnificent Malevolence,
Memoirs of a Career in Hell
In the Tradition of the Screwtape Letters.
It takes up the chronicle of diabolical subversion from the point at which C.S. Lewis left it. Just how
have the fiends been messing up the world
– and especially the Christian part of it –
since World War II?
This ‘autobiography’ – ‘darkly funny and
sharply written’ (Murray Watts) provides
some answers.
ISBN 978 1 78264 018 9 UK£7.99 US $14.99
Lion Fiction, www.lionhudson.com
Shocking Murder in Cheapside ! Leading Citizen Slain !
Pre-dawn, 13 November 1536: Robert Packington, Mercer, London Councillor, MP, crosses dark misty Cheapside. A cloaked figure raises a pistol, fires a fatal shot and disappears down a side street. Never before has anyone been assassinated with a handgun. This new kind of crime sends a shock wave through the nation but the hit-man is never found.
That Much is History
In the first of a series of novels based on true-life Tudor crimes Derek weaves a tense and complex story of politico-religious intrigue, violence and danger as young, newly-widowed goldsmith, Thomas Treviot, risks his life to unmask the killer and his paymasters. The tale is told in The First Horseman. E-book publication 8 August. www.littlebrown.co.uk
Remembering 'Jack' Lewis
The millions of fans of C.S. Lewis throughout the world will be marking this, the 50th anniversary of his death, with particular gratitude. Working quietly as an Oxford don and experiencing a personal life of frequent tragedies, this multi-talented intellectual made an impact which still reverberates. Wherever children read the Narnia stories, or sufferers are consoled by A Grief Observed or The Problem of Pain, or believers have their religious understanding deepened by Mere Christianity or Miracles, C.S. Lewis’s contribution to humanity lives on. Derek will be touring with a talk on this remarkable man. Tour starts at St Albans Cathedral on Wed 24 July. Need more information? Contact Angela Murray, angelamurraywork@gmail.com
“Masterly. [Wilson] has a deep understanding of … characters, reaching out across the centuries.”
Sunday Times
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