Paul Watkins

Paul Watkins was born in 1964. He is the son of Welsh parents and was educated at the Dragon School, at Eton and at Yale. His novels include Night Over Day Over Night, Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn, In the Blue Light of African Dreams, The Promise of Night, Archangel, The Story of My Disappearance and The Forger. He has also written about his experiences at public school, in Stand Before Your God. He was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1992 and 1996, and won the Winifred Holtby Prize for Best Regional Novel of the Year in 1996. He lives in the USA.

Books by Paul Watkins

While the eyes of the world are focused upon attempts to scale Mount Everest, two young men - once members of the world's climbing elite, subsequently forced into premature retirement ...

'Deliver us, O Lord, from the fury of the Norsemen . . .'

The latest novel from Paul Watkins is a riveting tale of epic proportions, evoking a turbulent age one thousand years ...

The year is 1944 - the final, agonizing months of the third Reich. Driven more by boredom than by patriotism for his shattered, despairing nation, former Hitler Youth Sebastian Westland joins ...

Paris, 1939. Europe is on the brink of a second World War. David Halifax, a young American art student, is arrested for forgery. Unbeknownst to Halifax, an unscrupulous art dealer ...

The year is 1921. Ben Sheridan, a young American, sets out for Ireland to track down his true family, and walks straight into the savagery of the Black-and-Tan war. The ...

James Pfeiffer lives in a world of ships and fishermen. Against the wishes of his parents, he follows the path of his family out on to the water. In the ...

Flying with the Lafayette Squadron and winning the Croix de Guerre, Charlie Halifax is shot down in 1918 and badly wounded. He deserts but is recaptured and exiled into the ...

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