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I am Mike Rendell, a retired lawyer turned author. I have just completed my first book entitled 'The Journal of a Georgian Gentleman'.
This book details the Life and Times of Richard Hall 1729-1801. Over the years I have enjoyed doing research into my family history and I am lucky enough to have inherited a considerable amount of what might originally have been termed 'junk' left behind by my ancestors. By some extraordinary twist of fate this pile of papers avoided being put to the flames some centuries ago when it was still new and devoid of historical interest. Things like shopping lists from the 1790's, or children's paper cut-outs, or packing lists for journeys long-forgotten. I have them by the handful because Richard Hall was my 4X great grandfather and never threw anything away.
My book 'The Journal of a Georgian Gentleman' is a factual account of his life compiled from these family papers and includes many illustrations from the original pages of his diaries and includes his commentaries on many of the events that we look upon as history but were current news events for him.
This, my first book, has now been published by The Book Guild and is available from good bookstores and on-line companies from January 2011.
The writing 'bug' has now taken my interest and with the time now available to me I intend to devote more of it to becoming an author and have other books under development.