Nicky Tams and the Battle of Scarborough
by Gordon Thorburn
Price: $4.00 USD. 12020 words.
Published on May 18, 2010. Fiction.
Eat your heart out, Harry Potter. This was how it really happened.
Location: United Kingdom
Member Since: May 13, 2010
Gordon Thorburn
Biography
Published 2009
Cassius, the true story of a courageous police dog. March, John Blake.
No Need To Die - American volunteers in RAF Bomber Command. July, Haynes.
2010
Classic Allotment - February, Remember When/Pen & Sword.
Travelling Art - gypsy caravans and narrowboats - May, The History Press
Classic Herb Garden - June, Remember When/Pen & Sword
Pocket Guide to Pubs and their History - October, Remember When/Pen & Sword
2011
Me and My MG
Remembering the High Street, a nostalgic look at famous names
Pocket Guide to Sheds
for 2012
Some Missing Persons - varieties of human species that have all but disappeared
Jocks in the Jungle - Scottish regiments as Chindits
Superpiss, Meltykiss, Spankers and Muff - brand names that will never make it in English
Luck of a Lancaster - WW2 bomber that flew over 100 missions
Other books published
Animal Spy – Sept 2007, Vision.
Bombers, first and last – June 2006, Robson Books.
Men and Sheds - October 2002, New Holland.
Ghosted autobiography of undercover agent. Simon & Schuster, hardback August 2001, paperback June 2002.
43 Unsporting Moments, Village Cricket, The Appleby Rai, The Buxton Baths Murders - own imprint (Fido Publishing).
Awards London BISFA 'Best Scriptwriter', Los Angeles ITVA 'Golden Reel' (both for video documentary about lack of treatment for kidney patients); Lakeland Books of the Year, Jennings Prize (The Appleby Rai).
Cassius, the true story of a courageous police dog. March, John Blake.
No Need To Die - American volunteers in RAF Bomber Command. July, Haynes.
2010
Classic Allotment - February, Remember When/Pen & Sword.
Travelling Art - gypsy caravans and narrowboats - May, The History Press
Classic Herb Garden - June, Remember When/Pen & Sword
Pocket Guide to Pubs and their History - October, Remember When/Pen & Sword
2011
Me and My MG
Remembering the High Street, a nostalgic look at famous names
Pocket Guide to Sheds
for 2012
Some Missing Persons - varieties of human species that have all but disappeared
Jocks in the Jungle - Scottish regiments as Chindits
Superpiss, Meltykiss, Spankers and Muff - brand names that will never make it in English
Luck of a Lancaster - WW2 bomber that flew over 100 missions
Other books published
Animal Spy – Sept 2007, Vision.
Bombers, first and last – June 2006, Robson Books.
Men and Sheds - October 2002, New Holland.
Ghosted autobiography of undercover agent. Simon & Schuster, hardback August 2001, paperback June 2002.
43 Unsporting Moments, Village Cricket, The Appleby Rai, The Buxton Baths Murders - own imprint (Fido Publishing).
Awards London BISFA 'Best Scriptwriter', Los Angeles ITVA 'Golden Reel' (both for video documentary about lack of treatment for kidney patients); Lakeland Books of the Year, Jennings Prize (The Appleby Rai).
Where to find Gordon Thorburn online
Website: http://www.gordonthorburn.co.uk
LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/gordon-thorburn/8/664/37
LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/gordon-thorburn/8/664/37
Where to buy in print
Books
666 Squadron - The Owl that Shriek'd
by Gordon Thorburn
Price: $6.00 USD. 83490 words. Published on May 18, 2010. Fiction.
American bomber pilot in World War II RAF is recruited to special duties 666 Squadron. Glamorous spy must kill her lover to discover Hitler's atom bomb. Together, can pilot and spy prevent Hitler's victory? All the flying and war background is authentic and the raids/targets are historically accurate enough to have been possible in the real context of the war.
Price: $6.00 USD. 83490 words. Published on May 18, 2010. Fiction.
American bomber pilot in World War II RAF is recruited to special duties 666 Squadron. Glamorous spy must kill her lover to discover Hitler's atom bomb. Together, can pilot and spy prevent Hitler's victory? All the flying and war background is authentic and the raids/targets are historically accurate enough to have been possible in the real context of the war.