May 7, 2024 | Cambridge, Fascism, People, Politics, Uncategorized
Here’s a snippet from Addlestone, the first book in the Addlestone Chronicles Trilogy. James is invited by Anthony Blunt to meet a person he described as an influential politician. He turned out to be Captain Anthony ‘Jock’ Ramsay, Member of Parliament. Over lunch,...
Mar 29, 2024 | Cambridge, Economics, History
Keynes appears with speaking parts in all three Addlestone Chronicles novels. During the 1930s and 1940s, Keynes was Bursar of King’s College, Cambridge and served as an advisor to His Majesty’s Governments. He is universally acknowledged as the most influential...
Mar 26, 2024 | Cambridge, Politics, Spies, Trump
In Addlestone, James Harcourt-Heath, a final year Maths student at King’s College, Cambridge, is recruited by the British Secret Services, Section MI5. His first assignment is to infiltrate a Trinity College based secret society called The Apostles. John Maynard...
Feb 14, 2024 | Cambridge, History
Alan Mathison Turing, became famous as the father of computer science as well as for the breaking the Nazi German Enigma Code. This character appears in Addlestone, the first book of the Addlestone Chronicles trilogy. Alan was the same age as James Harcourt-Heath, but...
Feb 2, 2024 | Cambridge, Spies
Anthony Blunt appears in all three novels in the trilogy and is central in the fourth. When James Harcourt-Heath met him, Blunt was some three years older and a graduate student and a Modern Languages tutor at Trinity College, Cambridge. Blunt was a leading light in...
Dec 7, 2023 | Cambridge, History
Keynes appears in all three novels, The Addlestone Chronicles. During the 1930s and 1940s, he was Bursar of King’s College, Cambridge and advised His Majesty’s Governments. He is universally acknowledged as the most influential economist of the 20 th century. In 1936,...
