Authors: William Nicholson
Reckless (54 page)
Guy Caulder, who appears in my novels
The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life
, set in 2000, and
All the Hopeful Lovers
, set in 2008, is the son of Pamela Avenell and Hugo Caulder. Guy’s daughter Alice Dickinson appears in three of the novels. The village of Edenfield in Sussex appears in all five novels.
As will by now be apparent, I am slowly building an ambitious sequence of interlinked novels that explore both the past and the present.
My researches for this novel have been extensive, but I have relied most heavily on the following books:
Bird, Kai,
The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy, Brothers in Arms
, London and new York: Touchstone Simon & Schuster 1998.
Clausewitz, Karl von,
On War
, London: Penguin 1968.
Crathorne, James,
Cliveden, the Place and the People
, London: Collins & Brown 1995.
Crawford, Marion,
The Little Princesses
, London: Cassell 1950.
Dallek, Robert,
John F Kennedy, an Unfinished Life
, London and Boston, MA: Little, Brown 2003.
Dobbs, Michael,
One Minute to Midnight
, London: Hutchinson 2008.
Frankel, Max,
High Noon in the Cold War
, Presidio Press 2004.
Fursenko, Aleksandr and Naftali, Timothy,
One Hell of a Gamble
, London and new York: Norton 1997.
Hennessy, Peter,
The Secret State
, London: Allen Lane 2002.
Ivanov, Yevgeny with Sokolov, Gennady,
The Naked Spy
, London: Blake 1992.
Kennedy, Robert F,
Thirteen Days
, London and New York: Norton 1968.
Kissinger, Henry,
Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy
, New York: Harper 1957.
Knightley, Simon and Kennedy, Caroline,
An Affair of State: The Profumo Case and the Framing of Stephen Ward
, London: Jonathan Cape 1987.
Schelling, Thomas G.
The Strategy of Conflict
, Oxford: Oxford University Press 1960.
Scott, L. V.,
Macmillan, Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis
, Oxford: Palgrave 1999.
Sykes, Christopher,
Nancy, the Life of Lady Astor
, Collins 1972.
Taubman, William,
Khrushchev, the Man and his Era
, London and New York: Simon & Schuster/Free Press 2003.
Twigge, Stephen and Scott, Len,
Planning Armageddon
, Newark, NJ: Harwood Academic 2000.
Wilson, Jim,
Launch Pad UK
, Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2008.
Ziegler, Philip,
Mountbatten
, London: Collins 1985.