about me

Jack Hughes is an author, historian and broadcaster. He was born in Essex in 1976 and has lived in Hampshire since 1990. He left a factory job in 1999 to begin a writing career and has gained a BA Hons in History and Masters degrees in Creative Writing and Heritage Studies.

He has also been a guest reviewer on local radio and is currently working on a history project with the BBC.

Works by this author include:

'Shadows of the Temple' series:

Dawn of Shadows (2003)
Covenants of Shadows (2010)
Fall of Shadows (1999)
Shadow of Winter (2011)

Unrelated short stories:

The Ghost of Thackery Cottage, Click..., A Proper Breakfast, Still to Come, Primrose Hill.

Children's poems:

The Hard Little Caterpiller
The Bear From Lower Uppham.

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favourite books

'Day of the Jackal' by Frederick Forsyth
The 'Jack Reacher' books by Lee Child.
Bernard Cornwell's 'Warlord' and 'Grail' series.
Most Tom Clancy.
Sharon Penman's 'Montfort' series.
Stieg Larsson's 'Girl with...' trilogy.
Bill Bryson's 'Down Under'.
Ian Fleming's 'Bond' series.
Conn Iggulden's 'Lords of the Bow' series.
The classics!

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