Roger Ley

I met Helen Federer at Peasenhall Literary Festival. Helen was a really funny speaker (as you'd expect) and I can recommend Peasenhall Festival as a go to event. Put it on your calendars for next year.  

Ronnie Malina, one of my  readers from Texas, made this anime summary of my book 'The Muslim Prince'. He's added it to his other book summaries on his 'Boundless Volumes' page The book is a respectful alternate history of  the British Royal Family if Princess Diana had not suffered the accident in Paris.   Link to the anime on TikTok Link to Boundless Volumes on TikTok

  Tall Tale TV has just published my latest short story. The link below takes you there and there's no pay wall, the stories are all free. Chris Herron TTTV has published quite a few of my short stories and he always does a fine job of narrating them. https://talltaletv.com/requiem/

  FREE to download 22nd to 24th Aug 2025 Fifty years ago this month I was working as a mechanic at an oil terminal on the coast of Libya. As I was walking from one maintenance job to another I looked out to sea and saw that the ship that worked in the bay on which the divers lived, had exploded. There was a huge mushroom cloud above the Francis Holmes. Six men were killed in that explosion and many more badly burned. I still think about the accident to this day. To honour the men who died, most of whom were Maltese, I offer my book 'A Horse in the Morning' free to download for a few days. 'A Horse in the Morning' is the memoir of an engineer, teacher, actor, writer and failed astronaut. The stories are funny, dramatic, sometimes mysterious, and told with quirky British understatement. I'd be grateful for a review if you enjoy the stories. This is a previous review: 'Roger Ley's collection of memoirs is like a series of short stories, all self-contained, as i...

 Now this is the sort of enthusiastic review a writer needs when they've just published a new book. The reviewer posted it on Audible, Amazon, Goodreads and BookBub. Quadruple whammy for the author! The link is in the first comment. "Harry Lampeter and the Unholy Alliance Harry Lampeter and the Return to Steam, Book 4 By: Roger Ley Narrated by: Craig Bowles One Thousand Times YES!!!! Overall: 5 of 5 stars Performance: 5 of 5 stars Story: 5 of 5 stars Reviewed: 07-30-25 Harry’s back! Oh lawdy, how I’ve missed him AND those he conscripts into his satirical adventures - and this, THIS brilliant offering “Harry Lampeter and the Unholy Alliance” is pure gob smack me … oh NO he didn’t … holy $%&@ he DID … gold! Our author has been very, VERY creative in THIS one, and the result is STUNNING! There are surprises aplenty, both in character development AND plot development - none of which I saw coming!! I won’t spoil the soup by giving any away, but I will say without reservation, b...

  Audible has just published the fourth Harry Lampeter book, 'Harry Lampeter and the Unholy Alliance', narrated by Craig Bowles. These are the links where you can listen to the sample audio:   https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Harry-Lampeter-and-the-Unholy-Alliance-Audiobook/B0FH5SHTKP https://www.audible.com/pd/Harry-Lampeter-and-the-Unholy-Alliance-Audiobook/B0FH5VKG69

  July is a nice month in the veg garden and I try to stay away from my computer and take a rest from writing. However, Craig Bowles has just finished narrating 'Harry Lampeter and the Unholy Alliance' and we are waiting with bated breath for it to be released by Audibles QA department. Enjoy the summer, grow more vegetables, but watch this space for news of Harry and Ms R's latest adventures.