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When John was living Stateside in Charlottesville Virginia, he was often asked to attend various fan conventions. The conventions ranged from pure Bond related themes to a mish mash of Bond, Star Trek, Space 1999, Battlestar Galactica, well you get the picture. When he could actually find the time to go to these affairs he found them fascinating, and slightly weird. He would come back and tell stories of sharing lifts, hotel lobbies, restaurants with Klingons, aliens, tuxedo wearing wanna be Bonds and all sorts of fictional characters. He attended these functions to sign books, give interviews or talk about Bond or the art of writing fiction. The reason i have brought this subject up dear visitor is that I have always (as my Father did) had a soft spot for Doctor Who. I remember as a very young boy being allowed to stay up and watch the very first episode of this iconic British TV series. I was hooked from that very first viewing. And yes for me, Daleks, pretty scary, but The Cybermen, they made me want to hide behind sofa! In later years i was working in London UK as a graphic designer for publishers WH Allen and had the pleasure of dealing with 'The Doctor' in print form. My art director Mike Brett would commission the cover illustrations and my job was to layout the jacket and produce the final camera ready artwork and mark ups to send to the printers. This was in the days prior to computers, when you did everything by hand. During my time at WHA I met some wonderful people connected with show and I felt that it was quite amazing that a show I had started watching as a boy had become part of my adult life. To be honest I gave up on Dr Who around the time of Sylvester McCoy and liquorice allsorts monsters. To me my beloved series had been ruined. When the show was resurrected by the BBC and Russell T Davies with Christopher Eccleston, I was blown away, brilliant! Then along came David Tennant who just ran with it and took The Doctor to yet another level or should that be levels? So this Christmas I sat down to watch the final 2 episodes of David Tennant's Doctor, and was surprised to see Timothy Dalton playing the High Chancellor of the Time Lords. This made me smile a very big smile. I was smiling because my Father, on returning from one of the aforementioned conventions brought me back a bumper sticker that I proudly attached to the rear of my VW Golf. This bumper sticker used to elicit very confused reactions from my US brothers. And what did this bumper sticker say? JAMES BOND IS REALLY A TIME LORD So you see JG knew the truth all along. Happy New Year Simon Gardner January 2010 P.S. Though I no longer have the bumper sticker, for those interested they were around during the1980-90's and featured a graphic of the Bond gun barrel with a silhouette and a long flowing scarf. Obviously the design invoked The Doctor from the classic Tom Baker era. |
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| Christmas and New Year greetings to all visitors to john-gardner.com |
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Once again we are revising the site and hoping to provide a richer and more interactive experience. We are going to have a 'blog' updating what is happening in the world of JG. More links, a Facebook fan site, and there is talk that we might be getting Tweets from beyond the grave! The most important thing is we need your input. We want your feedback on what you, the fans want. Please feel free to email me from the link on the contacts page. Talking of links, we are now very pleased to announce that we have a direct link to:
www.ianfleming.com Many thanks to Corrine Turner at Ian Fleming Publications for making this possible. My Father was a great fan of Christmas. He was a true believer in Santa Claus, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, whatever name you want to use. The Gardner Christmas was always special in good times and bad. So with that thought in mind, everyone involved in making this site possible wishes you, dear visitor, a wonderful safe Christmas and a very Happy New Year! Simon Gardner |
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| Now available - Moriarty Paperback | |
Buy now from Amazon.co.uk Scroll down for more information about Moriarty |
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Sherlock Holmes’ Nemesis Bestselling British novelist John Gardner published two books purporting to be the true history of Professor James Moriarty, archenemy of Sherlock Holmes, the Napoleon of crime. The books – The Return of Moriarty and The Revenge of Moriarty – were praised as stand-alone volumes set in a vividly accurate Victorian London and a stunning vision of the underworld of the time, inhabited by the kind of men and women who lived and preyed on the society of the late 19th century. Now it is the turn of the century and Moriarty has been away from London for several years, realizing his plans to set up crime syndicates in major U. S. cities. He is suddenly called back to London where his vast criminal society has been overrun by a rival concern led by the shadowy Sir Jordan ‘Mad Jack’ de Levant – a supposed gentleman hoodlum who is acting on behalf of the leaders of well-known criminal elements in France, Italy, Spain and Germany. Moriarty lives again and revolts against the upstart criminals who have attempted to oust him from his rightful place as king of all criminal endeavour. |
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| john-gardner.com relaunched! | |
Welcome to the re-launch of It has been a year since John died, and we apologise that the site has been’ Under Construction’ for such a length of time. Please look at the new site as a work in progress. We intend to be making changes as we go along, so input from visitors would be welcome. I would like to take a moment to thank Alex Canning for all the work that he had done on this site in the last few months. He has taken time out of his very busy life to re-work this site with very little help from me. Alex is a great friend of the family and a very talented individual. If you like the work he has done on this site and you have a site you might like him to get involved in please contact him by clicking here. First a big thank you to all of you Jolly JG fans out there who sent their condolences to us. The sheer number of people who wrote to say we were in their thoughts, and how much our Father’s books meant to them was overwhelming. We were extremely touched. What we aim to do over the next few months is to bring you updates on the publication of John’s last book Moriarty. As fans will know this is the much-anticipated third volume of the saga, which he always said he would write. Indeed he had a great time writing it, and he was the happiest I had seen him in a long while in the months before his death. Many people have written to me asking where they can find copies of his work outside of EBay/Amazon etc. Well another aim of this site is a crusade to get John Gardner back into the bookstores where he rightfully belongs. So visit us once in a while and I will let you know how that is going. Once again thank you all for your kindness following the death of John, you are an incredible bunch of fans and we hope you will continue to light a torch for the work of John Edmund Gardner. Missed but never forgotten! Simon Richard John Gardner |
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| No Human Enemy - Out Now | |
England, June 1944. Exactly one week after the D-Day landings came the vengeance weapons. It was the beginning of a period which, to the war-weary inhabitants of southern England, was psychologically much worse than the days of the Blitz. With Allied forces gaining a foothold after the Normandy landings, Hitler unleashes his most vicious weapon of war yet---the V-1 flying bomb. One of these new weapons lands on a Camberwell convent, killing three nuns. Suzie Mountford and her boss and secret lover Tommy Livermore are sent to investigate. When it’s discovered that one of the dead nuns is not what she seems, they find themselves in the middle of a complex, sinister plot. |
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Troubled Midnight - Out Now |
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Troubled Midnight is the fourth Suzie Mountford book and comes from Allison & Busby any minute. In 1943 plans are advanced for an invasion of the occupied Fortress Europe and the Nazis have a spy close to the planners. Suzie Mountford, investigating a double murder in a Berkshire market town is suddenly posted to War Office Intelligence Liaison where she finds herself in pursuit of spies and double dealers. Buy now from Amazon.co.uk - Hardback |
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Re-Released - Unknown Fears |
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Unknown Fears was originally published under the title Blood of the Fathers. Publisher’s Weekly says,’… fast-pacing international suspense in the spirit of Frederick Forsyth.’ This is a new take on the Jack the Ripper legend. |
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