Black and White with Shades of Grey

by Tony Whelpton

Paperback

First published November 15, 2000

About the author

I'm an English novelist, and one of the oldest you'll find on Goodreads, although I'm both physically and mentally a lot younger than my Birth Certificate shows! I live in Cheltenham, in the Cotswolds, a beautiful area of the South-West of England, I have a gorgeous wife called Joan, three daughters, two grand-daughters, three grandsons, one great-grand-daughter and one great-grandson.
In an earlier existence which seems to be a lifetime ago I taught French in a university, and if you Google me you will find a whole host of books attributed to me which were designed to help people who were trying to learn French - many of which I published through a company called TD Publications which I founded myself, although I closed that business when I was 75, thinking that it was time for me to retire and lead a quiet life.
But then I started writing fiction and suddenly realised that this is what I should have started doing long ago, and here I am six years later with six successful novels to my name and still actively writing! The first, Before the Swallow Dares was published in 2012, the second, The Heat of the Kitchen, came out in 2013; they were followed by Billy's War in 2014 and then its sequel, There's No Pride In Prejudice, in June 2016, and a short novel entitled A Happy Christmas published in October 2016. A Change of Mind, was published in October 2017, and I was invited to talk about it, and about my work in general, at the Cheltenham Literature Festival (the oldest, largest and most prestigious literary festival in the UK) in October 2017.
I recently published High Time, a complete reworking of A Happy Christmas.
If you didn't believe what I said above about being younger than my years, six novels in just under six years ought to convince you!
All my novels, of course, are available on Amazon.