John Richard Broughton

Hi, I was born in Cleethorpes Lincolnshire in 1948: one of the post-war baby boom. After attending grammar school and studying to the sound of Bob Dylan I went to Nottingham University and studied Medieval and Modern History (Archaeology subsidiary). My two kids are grown up now, but I wrote books for them when they were little. Hamish Hamilton and then Thomas Nelson published 6 of these in England in the 1980s. I’m a granddad now and happily his parents named my grandson Dylan. I decided to take up writing again late in my career. You know when you are teaching and working as a translator you don’t really have time for writing. I retired in January 2014 and began researching the period that has always fascinated me: Anglo-Saxon England. My research homed in on a Pope from Calabria, Italy, where I live, Pope Zachary and from there I chanced upon a letter from a certain Denehard and the idea for my first historical novel 'The Purple Thread' was born. Endeavour Media published it in the summer of 2017 along with my second, set 50 years or so earlier in Southern England with the title Wyrd of the Wolf. Since Endeavour ceased its activities, I've had another 40 novels published by Next Chapter Publishing. A while back, after writing a sequel to Wyrd of the Wolf, entitled In the Name of the Mother, I took a decision to develop my writing in two directions. There would still be the content of my beloved Anglo-Saxon era but in parallel to my 'pure' historical novels like Perfecta Saxonia and Ulf’s Tale there would also be a line involving the element of involving the past with the present as in my ‘time travel novel’ Angenga and a series of seven books, beginning with a tale of the paranormal entitled Elfrid's Hole (Jake Conley Book 1). Later still, I decided to write a Murder Mystery and with its success, another series was born. There are now 6 Vance & Shepherd Metropolitan Murders novels. Historical Novels: The Purple Thread Wyrd of the Wolf /In the Name of the Mother/The Wyvern's End Saints and Sinners/Mixed Blessings/Rex Mercorium Perfecta Saxonia Ulf’s Tale Sward and Sword The Rebel Scribes John the Old Saxon St Cuthbert Trilogy - Heaven in a Wild Flower; The Horse Thegn - The Master of the Chevron Sceapig Chronicles trilogy - The Runes of Victory; Sea Wolves; Blood Eagle The Saxon Shore Trilogy Murder and Mystery (Vance & Shepherd Series): The Quasimodo Killings The London Tram Murders Te Thames Crosssbow Murders THe Thames-Tigris Connection London's Psycho Cyclist Time Travel: Angenga Paranormal (Jake Conley Series): Elfrid's Hole Red Horse Vale Memory of a Falcon The Snape Ring Pinions of Gold The Serpent Wand The Beast of Exmoor Fantasy: Whiligig Sci.Fi The Remnant Please visit my website for further details. Children’s Books (All out of print): The Wild Man of the Four Winds, Hamish Hamilton1982 Fiddler’s Hill and other stories, Thomas Nelson1986 The Alchemist’s Tower, Thomas Nelson 1986 The Municipal Inventor of Barbaria, Thomas Nelson 1986 The Meggies, Thomas Nelson 1987 The Green Ox of Verbena, Thomas Nelson 1987