PAUL ANDREWS, WRITER AND AUTHOR
Paul Andrews is the author of Chains of the Gods and The Sea Turned Red, two completed historical novels set during the Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC.
Together they tell the story of Bran, a young Celtic warrior from the distant Tin Islands who is enslaved and carried into the ancient Mediterranean world, eventually finding himself in Athens as the immense army of the Persian emperor Xerxes advances towards Greece.
Drawing closely on Herodotus and other ancient evidence, the novels explore the people and events behind one of the great turning points of the ancient world through the eyes of Greeks, Persians and outsiders caught between them.
Paul Andrews is a freelance writer and novelist. He has written for newspapers for many years and continues to contribute articles to the Yorkshire Post. A selection of these articles can be read on this website.
He has University of London degrees in law and Classics.
He is a former independent Ryedale District councillor and Mayor of Malton. He is an honorary alderman of North Yorkshire Council. Click here to see a note of his life and achievements
He has two old websites which have been archived as they have not been updated for many years. Click here for his old archived council site and click here for his "loner" book site.
His novels:
Chains of the Gods and The Sea Turned Red are two completed historical novels set against Xerxes' invasion of Greece in 480 BC. Together they follow Bran, a young Celtic warrior from the distant Tin Islands, from enslavement and his arrival in Athens to the great confrontation between Greece and the Persian Empire.
The Warrior from the Tin Islands was an earlier version of this story, self-published in 2017. It has since been extensively revised and restructured to form the two novels above.
The Loner is an earlier novel about student life in Liverpool in the Swinging Sixties, combining humour, adventure and romance.