Charles Marlow, a recurring character in Joseph Conrad’s fiction, once referred to “the blank spaces on the map.” I have always been...

The writing of a work of fiction requires a good deal of patience. Other factors are involved, but patience is a virtue that might be...

Muhammad’s Education and the Enlightenment Before drifting out to sea and being carried away to Algiers by the Dey’s corsairs, Muhammad,...

One of the sources I’ve made use of in writing the Muhammad Amalfi Mysteries is the British Newspaper Archives, found at...

As historical novels, the Muhammad Amalfi Mysteries follow, however loosely, the events that shaped the Mediterranean world in the final...

The setting for The Muhammad Amalfi Mysteries is Algiers in the final decades of the Ottoman Regency. Like Camus who yearned for a...

Charles Mace and his wife figure significantly in several of the novels, and was in fact the British Consul General in Algiers for...

I Am Not a Historian. Not at all. But I’ve always loved to read about the past, whether in works of history, biography, fiction, and even...

In preparing the ground, so to speak, for these stories, I have collected a library of sorts, some in hard and soft cover, some in pdf...

Corsairs commissioned by the Dey of Algiers were known in Europe and around the world as the Barbary Pirates, when in fact they were...