Journal

Wreckwatch Magazine

I’ve been very pleased to contribute a number of articles to Wreckwatch magazine since its foundation in 2020, allowing me to write about some of my current projects off Cornwall in England and to look back on my career as an archaeologist and writer. Wreckwatch is an exciting innovation conceived and edited by Dr Sean Kingsley …

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PYRAMID: excerpt from the novel (the wreck of the Beatrice)

In my novel Pyramid, Jack and Costas revisit the wreck of the Beatrice - discovered in my previous novel, Pharaoh - in order to examine the ancient Egyptian sarcophagus of Menkaure for further clues to Akhenaten's lost 'City of Light'. To find out more about the real-life wreck and the sarcophagus, click here. After a horrifying accident with Costas' submersible, Jack has to make a snap decision ...

 

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NATIONAL POST: The deep →

My final post as guest-editor of 'The Afterword' on Canada's National Post newspaper:

This unusual author portrait was taken by my brother Alan near Tobermory in Lake Huron, one day in spring as the ice was breaking up. I’ve been passionate about diving since boyhood, and in my career as an underwater archaeologist I’ve dived all over the world. But I’ve always loved returning to Tobermory, the place where I did my first open-water dive in 1978. It isn’t just the extraordinarily well-preserved shipwrecks that draws me back ...

 

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