About Longer Reads
This page will largely feature extracts from my upcoming Nelson biography, The Lamented Hero. These pieces will be ideal content for the train to work, idling in bed, or loafing on the loo.
‘Popular applause is very acceptable and grateful to me, but no man ought to be too much elated by it. It is too precarious to be depended upon, and it may be my turn to feel the tide set as strong against me as ever it did for me.’
Horatio Nelson
Longer Reads
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A Street Cat Named Nelson (Churchill & Nelson – part 1)
The charming story of an unlikely friendship.
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The Death of Nelson’s Mother
The death of Horatio’s mother is a tragedy cloaked in secrecy. He maintained a lifelong tight-lip on the matter…
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The Confusing History of Nelson’s Childhood Home
It was beside the River Burn that Horatio Nelson was born, on September 29th, 1758.
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Lady Emma Hamilton – The Early Years
This is an extract from my upcoming book, The Lamented Hero. This piece covers the formative years of Emma Hamilton.
Nelson The Sailor 