Life’s scoreboard
At my age, I have lived through a great number of ideas being rejected.
Agents, publishers and booksellers conspire to ensure that books of mine do not reach the reading public. My redoubtable agent, Gillon Aitken, refused to represent my book that became The Quest for Queen Mary. He said I knew too much about obscure German royalty and advised me to cut the footnotes.
The book languished for ten years in the drawer until
