A NEW JAMES BURKE BOOK

It’s been a while since the last James Burke book. This has been partly because the last book I wrote was Monsters in the Mist in the Galbraith & Pole series, but mainly because Burke and the War of 1812 has just needed a lot more research than most of the recent James Burke books. It sees Burke fighting a whole new kind of war in a whole new country, as he joins the forces defending Canada against invasion by the United States.

I started writing it long before Donald Trump meant the subject matter suddenly topical again — quite a feat after over 200 years. If you have heard people talking about the War of 1812 and had no idea what it was (and most people haven’t) here’s a relatively painless way to find out.

An experiment in new technology

I spend a lot of my time with my head in the 19th century, so it’s hardly surprising that I struggle with 21st century technology. But I’m playing with the idea of installing a buy button that will let you purchase paperback copies of Burke in the Land of Silver directly online. I’ll be charging £7.99 instead of the £9.50 it is on Amazon. (UK only, I’m afraid.)

Here’s the button. Let’s see what happens when you press it. If you have any problems please let me know. (Email to tom@tomwilliamsauthor.co.uk) If it works, I will make all my titles available online. So far, no-one has been interested and, until I know it works, I’m not extending or publicising the idea. But if you would like to try to buy any of my paperbacks directly from me at a discounted price, write to tom@tomwilliamsauthor.co.uk and I’ll try to sort it out for you. If it works, I’ll set up something properly.

Burke in the Land of Silver (paperback)

More exciting technological developments

Thanks to the wonders of AI, Amazon can now transform text to speech and make every book an audio book. So far, this is only available in the US, but I’m trying it out with Something Wicked. Because it’s not available in Britain, I haven’t actually heard it. I doubt it’s good as good as a professional human narrator but it may be better than my own amateur efforts. You can buy my own recording of Dark Magic, so you can compare the two and let me know what you make of it.

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