Forged Truth’s first publication is available on Amazon. ‘The Typewriterists’ is a historical novel by David N. Martin, the first he’s ever allowed to appear under his own name, and now the winner of the Norman King Award for Fiction 2025. You can buy it here, and read the latest interview with David N. Martin about ‘The Typewriterists’ by clicking here.
Praise for The Typewriterists:
“Engaging, thoughtful, realistic… I loved it” — Chris d’Lacey
“An absorbing and stunningly evocative work of fiction” — Jacob Ross
War is over. The Roaring Twenties have begun. Eustace Havershall is a decorated hero, not quite acceptable in British society’s upper circles. His under-funded company manufactures typewriters, a new-fangled technology to revolutionise office work. Virginia is the headstrong black sheep of the aristocratic Buckley family, a rebel against her own privilege. He is ruthlessly ambitious; she harbours aspirations beyond her gender. Perfectly mismatched, their turbulent marriage and growing fortune crash in the Depression-era Thirties. Fascism kindles a terrible new conflict, in which the nation’s manufacturing prowess will be everything and the love-scarred Havershalls must play their part.
The opening section of this novel has been short listed in the 2024 Historical Novel Society’s First Chapters competition.
Now read a ‘Behind the Book Interview’ with David N. Martin right here.
