Clive Hopkins: 3 books

Cadet Fredrick Barnes stands to attention as the notes of the bugle remind all present of the reason for their attendance; the string from the draped flag masking the new memorial is wound round his hand to ensure no possibility of slipping. The final note of The Last Post drifts into the silence,...

In the 1950s and 60s, a scheme was evolved to combine the solutions to two problems arising from the effects of World War II and concerning both many European governments and that of Australia. Europe had an embarrassing number of displaced, orphaned, and unwanted illegitimate children; Australia...

Sixty-three-year-old night shift cabinetmaker Robby Burns is murdered while taking an illicit smoke break outside the railway carriage maintenance sheds adjacent to the beach at Hockley, a quiet seaside town on Englands south coast. Professional isolationism among the too many government agencies...