Books

A job posting to the Outer Hebrides witnessing the effects of the Highland Clearances, started a curious chain of events as to how this social disaster took place in the 19th century, following the trail of land ownership back to 1066 and the Norman invasion. There he came across the grossly under-reported, Robert. The eldest son of William the Conqueror, which led to Austin’s first series, ‘The Wayward Prince.’ He is now hot on the trail of all victims of historical propaganda and false reporting, hence his latest series, The Wars of the Magna Carta, where victims of the murk of history are exhumed for further detailed examination – in the nicest possible way, of course.