P.R. Cook
ALLi Author Member
Location: United Kingdom
Genres: Adventure, Experimental Fiction, General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult (YA)
- Born July 8th, 1951, South Shields, England. - Educated at South Shields Grammar and Technical School for Boys. - Left school at 16 and apprenticed at Frank McNulty & Sons Boatbuilders. - Worked as a Joiner/cabinet maker until retirement. - Active on the revolutionary left of the Labour and Trade Union movement from the late 1960s onwards. Since retiring in 2016, I have been researching and writing the narratives of the Trojan War and the 'dark age' that followed. This period saw the destruction of the Palace Cultures and Temple Economies and is known today as the "Bronze Age Collapse". This is the story if those times, hidden in plain sight, within the greatest anti-war poem of all time: HOMER'S ILLIAD, WAR WITH ALL ITS SORROWS Dealing with current issues such as societal collapse, forced migration under the pressure of barbaric warfare, as well as the horrific, dehumanising trauma (PTSD - including the catastrophic Berserk state) suffered by soldiers and civilians alike, repeated around the Mediterranean for many of the same reasons today.
P.R. Cook's books
Genres: Adventure, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 12-15, 16-18, 18+
Achilles, the world’s greatest warrior. Odysseus, the world’s most cunning pirate. Agamemnon, the world’s most ambitious King, and Helen, the world’s most beautiful and powerful Queen. A wealthy and sophisticated world order turned upside down in an act of diplomatic sacrilege, and a tale of war as old as Western literature itself. The first book in the series introduces all of the central characters of the story and takes us from the marriage of Helen of Sparta, through her abduction at the hands of Paris, the Trojan prince. to the gathering of the Greek fleet at Aulis.
Genres: Adventure, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 12-15, 16-18, 18+
The night is dark, the future seems darker and a desperate Agamemnon launches a sneak attack on the Trojan host camped so close to the stockade and ditch. The say an animal is most dangerous when it is cornered. So it is too with men. This book illustrates the terrible choices made by men facing annihilation, manifesting the most ignoble traits of arrogant kings and how those actions set in motion events that ultimately brought about the death of the age of heroes. Book three takes us from the clandestine mission of Odysseus and Diomedes culminating in the death of Patroclus and the return of Achilles to the battlefield of Troy; traumatised by grief, fixated upon revenge, urgent for the death of Hector. Until this time, Achilles had been respected for his abhorrence of unnecessary cruelty. The shocking precision of his kills, whether of animals during the hunt or of...
Genres: Adventure, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
Formats: Paperback
Age Groups: 12-15, 16-18, 18+
The die is cast, the course for Troy is set, a fresh wind fills the sails, and on the prow of the lead ship, a broken man has just sacrificed his own daughter to make it so. But the bloodshed is far from over. Now the battle for Troy begins. This book takes us from the beach of Troy, through nine brutal years of savage warfare culminating in a catastrophic reversal of fortune that leaves the Greeks fighting for survival with their backs against the sea. Saved only by the setting of the sun, their last hope is an appeal to Achilles to rejoin the fight.