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A King's Gamble, a non fiction narrative driven account of the Neville's Cross Campaign to be released soon by Nick McLean and Worms and Warrior Press

History loves its clean-cut heroes. The ones with polished armour, pious motives, and great hair. However, it tends to forget the men who did the dirty work. The ones who didn’t ride into glory but stood ankle-deep in mud, holding the line when everyone else was off chasing banners and dreams. Sir Walter de Selby was one of the latter. And by all accounts, you’d have been a fool to cross him.

I spent a morning recently exploring Lanercost Priory. It was a nice drive from my home in County Durham into the wilds of Cumbria,...

The Castle at Barnard Castle It was early morning on Sunday and my alarm was going off. My wife and I had planned a little trip out to...

When I started writing A King's Gamble: The Neville's Cross Campaign, I had visions of myself as some sort of literary Indiana...

An examination of Jonathan Sumption's account of the Neville's Cross campaign of 1346.

In October 1346, an ambitious Scottish invasion of England climaxed in a dramatic twist: the Battle of Neville’s Cross saw the King of...

Well, that’s it. The words are down. The first draft of A King’s Gamble: The Neville’s Cross Campaign 1346  is officially finished. The...

The words are finally hitting the page. After years of reading, researching, ranting, and rewriting history in the pub (and in my head),...