Books by Dick Morris
- The Black Hats The Killers The Last Supper (Collection)
- The Last Supper
- Three Horror Stories (Collection)
- The Weather Station
- The Ruin
- The Killers
- The Investigators
- The Curse
- The Castle
- The Black Hats
- Pelican Escape or Die
- Dark Harbour
- Cursed Slaughtered Hunted (Collection)
- Corners of Wales (Travel guide)
- Blood Island
Wednesday 28 December 2011
Saturday 24 December 2011
Sunday 11 December 2011
The Curse
I now have a new cover for my novel The Curse. This book, like Pelican (now re-titled: Escape or Die), is now available on Smashwords as well as Amazon. The first chapter of each can be downloaded free.http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Curse-ebook/dp/B005MKFMS8/
Thursday 8 December 2011
Sunday 27 November 2011
Friday 25 November 2011
Wednesday 23 November 2011
Monday 21 November 2011
Sunday 20 November 2011
Friday 18 November 2011
Thursday 17 November 2011
The Brecon and Monmouthshire Canal.
The Brecon and Monmouthshire Canal.
This canal is one of the wonders of Wales, in my view. It stretches from Newport to Brecon, but the part that I am most familiar with is from Pontypool to Abergavenny. This is a wonderful walk in summer: an almost completely flat fourteen miles with something to look at around every bend. And no motorways or industries nearby, just pure Welsh countryside all the way. I have done the complete walk four times and am planning to do it again. I recommend leaving your car at Pontymoile basin near Pontypool, then walking to Abergavenny, and getting the train or the bus back to Pontypool (please be aware that the canal is a mile or two outside Abergavenny, and you may want to get a taxi into town) . Or the reverse. However, the first suggestion is best on a sunny day, since, if you start early, the sun will be behind you all the way. If this is too much for you, then walk as far as Star Bridge, and back. You can have lunch in the Star Inn, or do as I do: take a picnic lunch and have it on one of the picturesque bridges. You can also hire a boat at Goytre Wharf, and eat in the Italian resturant there.
I'll post a few more canal shots in due course. http://www.brecon-beacons.com/brecon-monmouth-canal.htm
Wednesday 16 November 2011
Monday 14 November 2011
Sunday 13 November 2011
Friday 11 November 2011
Thursday 10 November 2011
The Jungfrau Observatory.
The view from the Jungfrau Observatory.
The train journey up to the observatory from the village shown in this shot, is one of the great European experiences. The line passes through the Eiger mountain, and, on its way, the train stops to let you look out through windows cut into the North Face. This is definitely a must-do before you die.
Wednesday 9 November 2011
Monday 7 November 2011
Pelican
I have now published Pelican on Amazon. When I was told this story by one of the surviving characters, I was astounded. I thought it was the greatest escape story I had ever heard, and I felt I had to tell it to the world. Now, I have done that. I simply hope I have done it justice. I dedicate it to the man I have called Al Eckman. (This was not his real name, of course.)
Rest in peace, great venturer...
(Even though some years have passed since these events took place, I have had, in the interests of international relations, public face, personal feelings and, indeed, diplomacy, to leave some elements of this story deliberately vague. I have also had to include small amounts of disinformation. However, intelligent readers will have no difficulty in filling in the gaps, as it were, and picturing, indeed, the whole story. My main hope is that this book will prove a fitting epitaph to Al Eckman. I also hope that, sometime in the future, Hollywood will do its duty and produce a fitting tribute to this incredible man.
Where are you Mr Spielberg....?)
You can download the first chapter of this story free from Amazon. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pelican-ebook/dp/B0067M89DA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323072886&sr=8-1
You can download the first chapter of this story free from Amazon. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pelican-ebook/dp/B0067M89DA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323072886&sr=8-1
Sunday 6 November 2011
Thursday 3 November 2011
Wednesday 26 October 2011
Tuesday 25 October 2011
Thursday 20 October 2011
Pelican
I have today completed the first draft of this amazing adventure story, which also happens to be one of the greatest escape stories ever told. After a number of years delay (to reduce the embarrassment certain governments might experience) this story can now be written. I just hope I can do justice to the experiences of Rowe, Miller, Hubbard, and, of course, the man without whose determination none of those three would now be alive, and who is himself now dead: Al Eckman.
Wednesday 19 October 2011
Tuesday 18 October 2011
Monday 17 October 2011
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