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Cyrus Hood

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I grew up in Nyasaland, and was educated in a Jesuit boarding school in Rhodesia. The most important thing I took away from that experience was to question everything and I still operate under the belief that ' all things are not as they seem', which I suppose is slightly perverse as my occupation is in mechanical and electrical engineering. I am intrigued with European Neolithic Culture, the lifestyle and stunning mathematics of the Late Bronze Age, and the influence of the early Christian Missionaries on those clever people. My opus is nearly complete, a quad-rilogy tracing a female Bronze Age bloodline to the present - this has taken me five years to complete while we lived in Northern France, renovating a fermette. I will read most historical fiction particularly if it contains a sound footing factually. When I finish a book, I want to have learnt something different. Sorry, I don't read books about dragons, but good luck anyway. Cyrus Hood is of course a pen name and I also publish under my name- Mark Bean. Please don't cold-call for read-swaps. If you comment on my work and I will comment on yours with pleasure.

Artwork by William Bean of Cork

I am currently looking for an agent and can be contacted on bean8sz@btinternet.com

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Anything by Truman Capote
Cider with Rosie
A Farewell to Arms
Religion and the Decline of Magic
Kim,
The Stone Circles of the British Isles (Aubrey Burl)
The Histories
The Art of War
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Hellion 2

Mark Bean

Book two of the Hellion series. Occupied Normandy, 1940 and the 'Nineteen' are using the resources of the SS to search for an ancient relic.


Odette Tarin relinquishes the relic to her grand daughter as the German War machine storms into France. A Wermacht officer becomes drawn in to the mysterious circle of the Tarin family and is perplexed by the occurrences surrounding the farm at La Source in Normandy. The Reichskommissar SS, Heinrich Himmler is determined to outplay the other eighteen brothers and win the prize of Frott by planning the 'final solution' the Endlosung.

In America a young Cajun soldier is being trained in espionage, his arcane mission to parachute into occupied Normandy and cause mayhem. All the players meet up in this second book. This work contains an imagined exploration of the reasons of Himmler's mindset and his hatred of the Jews and then offers a novel explanation. I accept that issues about the holocaust are still very sensitive topics. However, I do not in any way wish to detract from or denigrate the awful slaughter of the Jewish people in Europe. This is a work of fiction and in no way apologises or makes excuse for the Nazi ghouls who created and ran the concentration camps. I hope you will enjoy the chapters I have posted.

 

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Software wrote 5 days ago

Dear Mark, Thank you for adding Doghouse Blues to your bookshelf....

Tottie Limejuice wrote 8 days ago

I did it that way to wind him up still further ;) Tx

Tottie Limejuice wrote 8 days ago

Thanks so much for the kind comment Mark. Can you believe, it is now ....

Tottie Limejuice wrote 9 days ago

Thanks so much, very kind :)

Tottie Limejuice wrote 9 days ago

Thanks so much for your very kind backing of Sell the Pig, Mark, very....

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I wrote 5 days ago

Hi K, This work is great stuff, your writing has reached a new level and that is not meant to denigrate your first 'Faking it in France'. What I mean is your style has changed, there is a maturity about your writing that makes for an entertaining and intelligent read. Sure there are are few minor ... view book

I wrote 8 days ago

Hi Tottie, just managed the first chapter during lunch break. I usually avoid 'Forwards' like the plague- as if the author wants to tell me how to understand their book, however I found yours engagingly written and valid. I would call it something else - maybe , 'Chapter One', but that is a very... view book

I wrote 90 days ago

Written from the heart- I like your style Emma, very evocative. view book

I wrote 141 days ago

Mike, I forgot to ask- tell me what Grey's rifle is- that kind of detail is important (to me anyway) regards view book

I wrote 141 days ago

'Behind the Ruins' Mike, This is a very well written piece that drags you in from the start. I've read a few post apocalyptic works, and this is genuinely the first the I've wanted to read more of. (To be honest, this is not really my genre and I put down Cormack McCarthy after a couple of chapter... view book

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