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The odyssey continues with nine new memoranda written with Alec Nesbitt's accustomed dry wit. Many in essay form, these new remembrances add greater depth to the understanding of one of the more fascinating ordinary lives of the twentieth century. From his reflections on the outbreak of World War II in 1939 to his first awareness of anti-Semitism to the birth of a handicapped son, Alec presents his readers with penetrating observations from earliest childhood into his eighties. King George the Sixth is now joined by ruminations upon Bela Bartok and his music as well as Frederick the Great's...

BOOK THREE OF "THE SPARROW TRILOGY" 1940 - THE SECOND WORLD WAR BEGINS Sir Vivian Sparrow is working for Winston Churchill who will soon be British Prime Minister. Within days France will fall. Lady Sparrow becomes desperate to comfort her dying mother on the far side of occupied France. Adele Michaud joins the French Resistance, then falls in love with a German officer. Surrealist poetry brings together two enemies as London awaits the Luftwaffe's bombers and Europe goes up in flames.

1936 - BOOK TWO OF "THE SPARROW TRILOGY" A WEDDING IN FRANCE ... A HONEYMOON IN HITLER'S GERMANY The exquisite Amalie Grammond marries Sir Vivian Sparrow in a sumptuous wedding celebrated against the darkening political divisions of Europe. Two brothers argue their Socialist and Fascist convictions until one is murdered, though not for his politics. The Sparrows' honeymoon in a sinister Germany determines Sir Vivian to take an early step in Britain's opposition to Hitler.

1935 - BOOK ONE OF "THE SPARROW TRILOGY" An English baronet dies and his son inherits the title, the fortune - and a French half-brother he didn't know existed. A pigeon race, a murder, infidelity and a light-hearted love story bring a cast of exceptional characters to a remote French village beside the Atlantic. A Week at St-Andre is a tale of hostility, romance, courage and nobility set within a quirky - though charming - world of the last century. The author's unerring sense of time and place brings to vivid life the foibles, the fashions, the cuisine and the art deco style of the doomed...

Old Sir Julian Sparrow is suddenly killed. His son, Vivian, inherits the baronetcy, the fortune and-a hostile half-brother he didn't know existed.

Summer, 1935. In the village of St-Andre-le-Placide a ten-year-old boy's racing pigeons and two tormented women set events in motion that lead to murder even as a 'grand passion" is born.

In the ancient Chateau Sir Vivian Sparrow and his sister Angela are greeted with graciousness, brooding hostility and by Angela's chic and adorable friend who drives a dangerously fast Bugatti.

"A Week at St-Andre" vividly contrasts the greed and cruelty...

An Improbable Love Story A classic Grecian beauty who lives with constant danger, Ariana travels the roads of Eastern Europe delivering contracts too incriminating to be sent any other way. Alone at high speed in her Bentley, she wonders who she really is, why she's always been so aloof, indifferent to the admiration she receives. An evening watching a belly-dancer opens the door to her sudden self-discovery and the exciting though provoking story that unfolds. FLASHDRIVE takes you into a little known world of high-level international crime where betrayal is commonplace and transcendent love...

Old Sir Julian Sparrow is suddenly killed. His son, Vivian, inherits the baronetcy, the fortune and-a hostile half-brother he didn't know existed.

Summer, 1935. In the village of St-Andre-le-Placide a ten-year-old boy's racing pigeons and two tormented women set events in motion that lead to murder even as a 'grand passion" is born.

In the ancient Chateau Sir Vivian Sparrow and his sister Angela are greeted with graciousness, brooding hostility and by Angela's chic and adorable friend who drives a dangerously fast Bugatti.

"A Week at St-Andre" vividly contrasts the greed and cruelty...