Andrew Samson – appreciation
Andrew Samson For the astute follower of TSL, you would have realised Andrew has the same surname as the TSL directors. It is nepotism at work – pretty much all publishing, as with other...
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Keith Joyce – appreciation
Keith Joyce Train Alive! This is a book with a difference. It’s the blue print of the layout of the carriages and engine making up the train that American General Dwight Eisenhower used in...
Peter Charlton – appreciation
Peter Charlton Peter wrote and self-published in print his book on Nyasaland volunteers in World War 1. As stock ran down, he asked if TSL/GWAA would reprint the book, making it available internationally. The...
Timothy Hoffelder – appreciation
Timothy Hoffelder Timothy’s association with TSL is through our later Great War in Africa Association imprint (GWAA; https:gweaa.com). As an academic assignment, he had translated a Belgian report on prisoners in East Africa during...
Arnold Woolley – Appreciation
Arnold Woolley Arnold was with the British South Africa Police in Rhodesia before it became Zimbabwe. Many of the BSAP were young British men who had gone to serve in the police force in...
Jack Clamp – appreciation
Jack Clamp I can’t remember how Jack came to TSL but I’m pleased he did. His history of An Illustrated History of the Protestant Dissenting Church in Potterspury and Yardley Gobion Northamptonshire is a...
James Martin Charlton – appreciation
James Martin Charlton James is a playwright and academic at Middlesex University. After a longish chat at the British Library about TSL, the challenges of getting published, the world of education and plays being...
William Endley – appreciation
William Endley I’ve written about William and his South Africa at War in my capacity ss a WW1 Africa historian here. This pretty much sums things up, except to say that William is continuing...
Oscar Monteiro – appreciation
Oscar Monteiro Oscar was a member of Harrow Writers Circle which is where he heard about TSL. He had self published a novel or two and had helped others with their publications. With TSL,...
Christopher Hammond – appreciation
Christopher Hammond Christopher’s Passing Passions was, and is, a one-off. Something on his ‘bucket list’ – write a book and get it published. The book – a complete contrast to his pre-retirement day-job mixes...
Hazel Leventhal – appreciation
Hazel Leventhal Hazel’s Soul Stories provides an insight into how attachment shapes our lives. Using anonymised case studies from her time as an attachment therapist/counsellor, she takes her reader through the lived experiences of...
Ian Mackay appreciation
Ian Mackay Ian joined TSL around 2020 having found us as a result of our African connection including the British South Africa Police link with today’s Zimbabwe. Henry Hartley, the focus of his book,...
JM Kearsley – appreciation
JM Kearsley Despite Joy (JM) being based in South Africa, she has a fascination for the Peninsula War of the early 1800s. This is the focus of her trilogy, of which the first two...
Roger Bray appreciation
Roger Bray Roger is one of TSL’s retired journalist authors with a link to Arnie Wilson. Both limerick fans, Arnie recommended Roger’s quirky rhymes written mostly during the lockdown of 2020 – although few...
Kat Francois – appreciation
Kat François I met Kat at an event Diversity House was holding in Maidstone on the First World War in Africa. Kat is a performance poet and had been asked to write a poem...
Clive Greenwood and Jason Wing – appreciation
Cive Greenwood and Jason Wing Clive Greenwood approached TSL about publishing the play he and co-author Jason Wing had researched and written. So it came to be that The Ballad Crookback and Shakespeare was...
Kathleen Bates – appreciation
Kathleen Bates Hailing from Ayreshire, Kathleen had already published her little book of serendipitous happenings – Joyful Witness – when a mutual friend told her about TSL. The result is that TSL published the...
Owain Raw-Rees – Appreciation
Owain Raw-Rees Owain and I met at a medal fair where I was advising on researching African themes and people. With this, I had relevant books available for purchase – niche topic material. The...
Charlotte Harker
Charlotte Harker Charlotte is foremost an artist and a poet. However, it is her short stories that have been published by TSL, with the addition of the odd poem and some illustrative sketches. Her...
Abdolhai Shamassi appreciation
Abdolhai Shamassi Abdolhai’s joining TSL extended our reach to Iran where he is a lecturer and playwright. He was looking to get his plays published in English. Not being an English speaker, or writer,...