'The Recordbreaker' - A Short Anthology Now on Amazon Kindle

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My collection of semi-biographical stories 'The Recordbreaker' is now live on Amazon Kindle. In this short anthology I've focussed on seven well-known figures from the past in the worlds of entertainment, sport and national/international news. Some are still famous, others maybe almost forgotten, but they all hold a fascination for me. They had a personal isolation from others around them and most of them left this world, despite their fame or notoriety, in tragic circumstances. They are one-offs; loners who perhaps gained a deeper understanding of life, especially in the leaving of it.

Here's the synopsis:

- A cold crisp morning on Coniston Water, forth of January 1967; Donald Campbell, legendary British speed recordbreaker, is going for the world water-speed record, possibly for the last time. Despite numerous set-backs all is set for triumphant success...
- Its the seventeenth of March 1912 and Captain Lawrence Edward Grace "Titus" Oates, British army officer and lately Antarctic explorer with Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition, is about to spend his last night of frostbitten agony in the company of a young ghost from his past.
- On the twenty-fifth of June 1968 in Bellevue Australia a depressed and lonely Tony Hancock, once famous groundbreaking British comedian of radio, film and screen, awakes from a befuddled sleep to take stock of his life. 
These and four other semi-biographical stories of maverick loners make up Dave Weaver's 'The Recordbreaker'; a fatalistic look at the famous.

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