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The Riches of Morgan's Orchard
28 Oct 2021A working-class mining town boy’s rise to war hero
Derfal Morgan is the youngest son of a collier in a South Wales pit village. Unlike his five brothers who enter the pit – where their different fates lie – his life is fortunate to be enriched by a Grammar School education, subsidised by his family.
Charting Derfal’s illustrious career, leading to his appointment as a squadron commander as a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps (RFC), The Riches of Morgan’s Orchard is a chronological tale that traces the growth of a young boy into a man against the background of the First World War. Alongside the action, there is a tender love story intertwined between Derfal and the Stationmaster’s daughter, Ruby.
David Meaton lives in Dorset in semi-retirement after a forty-plus-year career in education starting in the early 1970’s teaching English in secondary schools and progressing through an international career in six countries within the military training network and as the principal of two technical colleges within the vocational higher education sector. He finished up managing vocational and technical education reform in Saudi Arabia as Vice President of the funding agency that managed sixty colleges within the region. His final overseas post was as Managing Director of a new university college project in Qatar specializing in degree-level courses in business and computing. David was also commissioned in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve for nineteen years and for seven years in the UAE military training and has drawn on some of that experience in his writing.
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The Wurtenberg Affair
28 Nov 2023A fast-moving tale of espionage, crime and murder on the home front during the First World War.
Wesley is the middle of six brothers born to a poor mining family in a South Wales pit village. After following his three elder brothers and father into the mine straight from the village school, Wesley immediately feels as though he will be trapped in hard and dangerous graft for the rest of his life and is determined to break free from the poor health, poverty and lack of opportunity he sees all around him. His determination sees him leave the pit and qualify for admission to the South Wales constabulary just before the start of the Great War.
Fast paced and thrilling, The Wurtenberg Affair charts Wesley’s involvement in a plot to uncover deeply embedded German spies in Welsh ports and his rise through the newly formed secret security police during the First World War.
David Meaton lives in rural Alicante and is retired after a long career in education as a schoolteacher, military trainer and principal of two colleges of technology within the vocational higher education sector. His first novel The Riches of Morgan’s Orchard was published in 2021. The Wurtenberg Affair is the second in The Morgan Trilogy.