Peter Darman
ALLi Author Member
Location: United Kingdom
Genres: History, Historical Fiction
I was raised in Grantham, Lincolnshire and attended the King's Grammar School after passing the Eleven Plus exam. In the latter I clearly remember writing an essay on Oliver Cromwell – my first piece of military writing. Then came a BA in history and international relations at Nottingham followed by a Master of Philosophy course at the University of York. The subject was the generalship and cavalry of Prince Rupert of the Rhine, my boyhood hero, during the English Civil War. The year I spent researching and writing at York, Oxford and at the British Library in London was a truly wonderful time. However, like all great times it eventually came to an end and I was forced to find employment. By this time I was living in London and started work at the London Borough of Haringey. It was hell, but it did allow me to finish my thesis. Then fate took a hand and I landed a job as a research officer with the Defence Intelligence Staff in Whitehall. Writing top-secret intelligence reports was highly exciting, until I realised that their security clearance was so high that only a handful of people were cleared to read them. In 1990, therefore, I decided to apply for a job in the publishing industry as an editor. I joined a small company in said position in the summer of that year and the rest, as they say, is history. I also write under the pen name Steve Crawford, though not every book that has Steve Crawford on the cover is one of mine.
Peter Darman's books
Genres: Historical Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+
The gods watch. Kings command. But warriors decide history. Born to a slave woman, raised among the dust and hardship of ancient Persia, Kian Mihran expects nothing from life except survival. But courage has a way of changing destiny. When a chance encounter brings the young warrior to the attention of Cyrus, the ambitious King of Persia, Kian is drawn into a world of kings, priests and empires on the brink of transformation. As Cyrus begins the campaign that will forge the greatest empire the ancient world has yet seen, Kian must prove himself on battlefields stretching from the mountains of Media to the plains of Babylon. Yet the enemies he faces are not only soldiers. Assassins hunt him. Ancient rivalries threaten to destroy those he loves. Powerful priests fear the rise of a new empire, while the gods themselves seem determined to shape his destiny. Marked by Ishtar, tested...
Genres: Adventure, Historical Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 12-15, 18+
In the closing months of World War II, Axel Steiner, a young German soldier, fights desperately on the collapsing Eastern Front in the defence of the Third Reich. Meanwhile, Hannah Katz, a young Hungarian Jew, endures the unspeakable horrors of a concentration camp when she is forcibly evicted from her home in Budapest, clinging to memories of her family and the faint hope of freedom. As Soviet forces push west and the German Army disintegrates, Axel fights to survive against overwhelming odds. Hannah is also fighting her own battle of survival against a murderous regime that wants to work her to death, either that or send her to the gas chamber. As the war in Europe ends, fate brings the two together. But can survival lead to forgiveness, or is the divide between the two too deep? ‘Herrenvolk’ is the first volume in the Redemption series, which explores love, loyalty,...