Lionel Fanthorpe
Born in Dereham in Norfolk in 1935, Lionel was a journalist before moving into teaching. While working as the Further Education Tutor at Gamlingay Village College in Cambridgeshire, he was invited to become the Chief Industrial Training Executive for the Phoenix Timber Group of Companies. After a few years in industry, he returned to teaching, and lectured for Cambridge University’s Board of Extra-Mural Studies. Over the years he has co-authored more than two hundred books with Patricia, many of them dealing with unsolved mysteries. He came to Cardiff in 1979 as Head of Glyn Derw Comprehensive High School in Ely. He took early retirement from there in 1989 and worked as a lecturer, writer, radio and TV broadcaster and management consultant in partnership with his wife Patricia. They celebrated their Diamond Wedding in 2017 and have two daughters and two grandchildren.
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Jerry Lyons –
This multifaceted and action-packed novel, co-authored by Lionel Fanthorpe & Patricia Fanthorpe, has as its central characters the tough as teak warrior Garan and his breathtakingly beautiful Sorrenne. These two an item who simply will not countenance being separated for too long. Though the scourge of war might put their joy together on hold and facing almost insurmountable odds, all spellbindingly told by the book’s writers, the warrior and his princess are finally re-united. This narrative’s action segments surpass Alexander Cordell’s even at his best while its musings come close to those found on the pages of Herman Melville’s ‘Moby Dick’. Ultimately Lord Garan & Lady Sorrenne have been changed after all they have experienced…the heroine finds that hope itself burns like a beacon in the world of human affairs and her hero finds that the argument of force is far, far less desirable than the force of argument.