Trevor Summons: 5 books

The great world traveler and writer Trevor Summons has decided to settle down in Southern California and conduct all his subsequent literary expeditions here. Summons is now the region's tour guide of choice. He leads readers not only on visits to the well-known attractions, but also on journeys of...

In 1785, Paddy O'Doule, a simple Irish farmer is a press-ganged into the royal navy and later convicted of a crime he did not commit and transported to a penal colony in Australia. After years of suffering and harsh, unjust treatment, peace-loving Paddy, consumed with hatred of the English and the...

With no particular talent the writer explains how he stumbled into a profession that eventually and surprisingly worked out to his benefit. Children of the immediate post war era were expected to be seen and not heard which only added to an innate shyness; not the best formula for the world of sales...

World War II was the introduction for many into war. Its effects were devastating on a people unprepared for the ravages that fell from the skies. Transposition tells the story of two families torn to pieces by the conflict. It also explains some of the firmness of the English class system and how...

In a series of separate but subtly linked stories, McConnells traces a family from the modern day Philip, who leaves his terrorist life; back through his uncle Seamus, who was the first to strike a blow for Ireland. Further back, Daniel fights for the British in WWl, after his ancestors escaped the...