Jeremy Good

Jeremy Good was born in 1960. He has studied Egyptology and visited that country many times. His interest in ancient Egypt and World War Two history figure often in his novels. He lives on the south coast of England with his two sons.

"I am fascinated by the twists and turns of life and history, and what makes us who we are; how a different day's weather can cause a battle to be lost or won, or an assassin's bullet can hit or miss its intended target in the split of a second. How different would the outcome of WW2 have been if Hitler had been killed by a sniper or lone bomber, or the weather on the eastern front been mild instead of the atrocious freezing winter conditions that prevailed at end of 1942?

I am intrigued too at the beguiling ancient world of the Egyptians, and how we endeavour to see their lives through the eyes of the ordinary people; the farmers, the bakers, the scribes and workmen who toiled at the sites of their great monuments. But I find it almost impossible to get my head around the utter paradox of their culture compared to ours, where the building of monuments that we still see standing today, are virtually impossible to envisage being built, thousands of years later, even in today's technological world. How on earth did they do it, and why? We struggle to answer these questions and the many mysteries of their long gone society. Ancient Egypt remains the nearest thing we have to what might be described as the remnants of an alien civilisation residing on our planet, the comprehension of which will undoubtedly be just beyond our reach forever."