The Smithwrites Blog

UNGA First Committee Side Event: The Challenge of IEDS in Humanitarian Mine Action

I'm delighted to be speaking at the above side event on Tuesday 19 October. Please see the link below for details:...

A 'Dirty History' of Wheelbarrow?

I’ve just read a real humdinger (and not in a good way). It’s an academic paper called, ‘Making Safe: the dirty history of a bomb...

Better to Die – ‘The characters were fully developed and the writing was superb’

So, my first novel, Better to Die, has hit the bookshelves. To date, it’s had some amazing reviews, but I thought I should put it to the...

The IED Challenge

Although I love writing action/adventure fiction, my day job often sees me engaged in rather less racy stuff. Over the last few weeks,...

New Ranger Regiment for British Army

No sooner had my first novel, Better to Die, hit the streets than the UK Ministry of Defence announced that it was creating a new ‘Ranger...

The King's Royal Rangers - A real regiment?

Several readers of Better to Die have asked me if the King’s Royal Rangers – the regiment that forms the main backdrop to the novel – is...

'Better to Die' - some of the influences

So, now the novel, Better to Die, is finally out there, quite a few readers have been asking me what my influences have been. I must say,...

Steve Smith