Owen W. Knight – Speculative Fiction Author
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Essex Book Festival 2020: Local Authors’ Day 7th March
I thoroughly enjoyed facilitating my discussion session at the Local Authors’ Day at Chelmsford Library, an event within the Essex Book Festival. I credit its success to the responsiveness and engagement by all of the attendees, who provided some excellent ideas for subjects and locations of novels. I offer special thanks to those who kindly…
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Another Life: Final Cover Design
To be published 1st May 2020.
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‘Another Life’, My New Novel, will be Published 1st May 2020
I am delighted to announce that my new novel, Another Life, will be published on 1st May 2020. Much more news to follow…
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Lendwithcare: Help Entrepreneurs Work Their Way Out Of Poverty
Each year I ask my friends and followers to consider supporting the charity Lendwithcare. Lendwithcare provides entrepreneurs in developing countries with ethical loans to enable them to work their way out of poverty with dignity. The wonderful thing is that, being a loan, the money is repaid, allowing you to help people to help themselves…
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Fenja And Menja, The Grotte-Mill And The Fimbul Winter
An important element in my Invisible College Trilogy is the Book of Mysteries, entitled Temple Walden – A View of Its History, Origins and the World Order. The title page identifies it as An account of the ancient mysteries, as recorded with diligence through the ages and recounting the truth and destiny of the true…
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Stone Devil From The Invisible College Trilogy
The statue of the Stone Devil that features in my YA series, The Invisible College Trilogy and appears in the cover design for book 2, ‘Dust and Shadows, is based on this photograph I took some years ago. I’m glad I did, as it has since disappeared. In book one, ’They Do Things Differently Here’,…
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SALAD: Southend Area Local Authors’ Day Saturday 6th July 2019
Not to be missed! On Saturday, 6th July, the 2019 Southend Area Local Authors’ Day (SALAD), with the Southend Festival. The opportunity to meet, talk and listen to local authors from the Southend-on-Sea and surrounding area. Share stories and experiences of writing and buy their books. Participating authors from a number of genres, including fiction,…
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The Voynich Manuscript: Decoded After 100 Years
In book 1 of my The Invisible College Trilogy, the main protagonists, teenagers Emily and Peter, discover a ‘book of mysteries’, which contains, amongst other things, a transcription of a document written in an indecipherable text, accompanied by illustrations, also not understood. I based this upon the Voynich manuscript.For over a hundred years the Voynich…