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A
Tribute
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Mark Bannerman
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We are very proud to tell you about Mark Bannerman.
A prolific novelist who had over thirty western novels published.
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About Mark
Mark Bannerman is the pseudonym of Anthony C Lewing
who was born at Colchester, Essex. He
was educated at Kings College School,
Wimbledon, and served for 35 years in
the British Army. On retirement he
concentrated on writing about his great
interest - the history of the Old West.
He visited the locations of many of
his stories and accrued an immense
library of reference books on the
subject. He also wrote a novel set
in the English west - The Cornish Woman. He lived with his French-born wife
Francoise in Surrey UK, and has two grown-up
children. He also shared his gift and taught creative writing to
adult students.
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A Tribute
Sadly on 17th June 2013, Mark passed
away. As a novelist he was a beacon to
all those people who at some point in
their life decide they want to write and
become a published author. He has left a
huge portfolio of successful novels
which are still in traditional hard-copy
print, today. In early 2013 he undertook
the mammoth task of digitizing his work
for the the Kindle with great success
and immediately achieved the rank of #9
in Amazons top selling 'Western'
authors. As a long term user of
Newnovelist we very much appreciated his
insight and the feedback he gave us to
improve our product. Farewell
and thanks Tony!
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Portfolio of Marks's published novels
All available to buy at
Amazon
or good bookstores.
HEAD HUNTERS
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Elmer Carrington, former
Captain of the Texas Rangers, is the victim of a
horrendous crime committed by the Mexican bandit,
Mateo. Accompanied by Daniel Ramos, another victim
of Mateo, the pair set off in pursuit of the man
they hate. With the trail leading them deep into
Mexico, through dangerous mountains and blistering
desert, they encounter terrifying hazards and
unforeseen enemies. But nothing has prepared them
for the treachery and torture that awaits them when
Carrington is given a hideous task. Failure to carry
it out threatens death for both him and Daniel
Ramos... |
GALVANIZED YANKEE
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From the bloodstained
fields of the Civil War, through a brutal Indian
campaign and finally into the greedy, lawless world
of the Montana goldfields, Jared Harris is
relentlessly pursued by mysterious enemies. Who are
they, what do they want … and why him? Now he finds himself
accused of a murder he did not commit, hunted by
hooded vigilantes and, worse still, pursued by the
Army for dereliction of duty. Time is running out
for Harris and, if he is to find the key to his
survival, he must face the man who plunged him into
this unending nightmare. But will he survive that
gamble? |
SHADOW OF GUILT
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It starts out as a
simple mission to trace his kid brother, but Brad
Caulderfield rides into a heap of trouble when he
kills the brother of Marshal Seth Blevins. Charged
with murder and pursued by the embittered lawman,
Brad has no alternative but to run for his life. He
faces further complications from Stella Goodnight
who is out for his blood when he fails to return her
affections. When his brother reappears bearing
bitter resentments from the past, he is looking
headlong into the face of his nemesis... |
THE CORNISH WOMAN
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Orphaned by shipwreck
in 1890 and unaware of her true parents, Rosena Bray
is brought up by Cornish fisher-folk. As a child,
she witnesses a fairground incident that will haunt
her for the rest of her life. By the time she is in her
twenties, the Great War is raging and she works at a
convalescent home for wounded soldiers. Here she
falls in love with the enigmatic, pious Welshman
Gareth Williams, to whom she surrenders her
virginity in the belief that he will marry her. War intervenes and she is subsequently lured into an
elopement. The story swings from
Cornwall to the Flanders trenches, from the sheep
ranges of Australia to the Solway Firth, and Rosena
finds herself trapped in a whirlpool of murder and
duplicity. |
RAILROADED
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After the Civil War,
Kansas was a lawless land ripe for exploitation.
German immigrant Helmut Rapp and his wife risk
everything as they battle the cruel elements, the
Indian threat and the dangers of the raw
environment. Furthermore, Helmut has dark secrets in
his past, and events force him to act with
uncharacteristic ferocity. With the new railroad
thrusting towards his land and greedy and
unscrupulous men stopping at nothing to gain
advantage, Helmut strives to preserve the life and
obscurity he has worked so hard to achieve. But mob
violence and murder erupt, ripping his world apart
and forcing him into a deadly duel that can only be
resolved by the blast of gunfire. |
HOG-TIED HERO |
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Maintaining order in a
cow town, veteran Marshal Aaron McLean takes on more
than he bargains for. Lyle Cameron is the most
ruthless, the most powerful, rancher in the
territory. His feckless son is guilty of murdering
the local undertaker. Marshal McLean knows that it
is his duty to bring the killer in, but this will
mean challenging the formidable Lyle Cameron. To
make matters worse, the local community is stirred
into civil strife over scandalous events at the
saloon, Porky’s Pride. The arrival of a travelling
circus further aggravates the situation with a
bizarre crime.
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BLIND TRAIL
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Whilst on military patrol,
Lieutenant Raoul Webster, United States Cavalry, is
blinded in a freak accident. Granted furlough by the
Army, he subsequently sets out, guided by his young
brother, for San Francisco where he intends to
consult an eye doctor. But en-route, the stagecoach
conveying them is ambushed by ruthless Mexican
bandits. Raoul’s brother is cold-bloodedly murdered,
as are the driver and male passengers of the coach.
Raoul survives, but is left alone in the wilderness,
vulnerable to all Fate can throw at him. He is kept
alive by one burning ambition: to track down his
brother’s killer. |
THE MODOC KID
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Oregon, 1873. Michael
Barncho is charged with the murder of an American
general. He and his fellow conspirators face a
military tribunal at Fort Klamath. The Nation is
crying out for revenge. Found guilty, the death
sentence is a formality. Chained together the
condemned men are led to the gallows, but Barncho
survives in the most bizarre fashion. Dubbed "The
Modoc Kid" he is hunted, hated and feared, as Fate
leads him along a trail of ordeal and murder that
will end with a life-sentence in the fog-bound
hell-hole called Alcatraz, the notorious prison in
San Francisco Harbor. |
GUNSMOKE AT ADOBE WALLS
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Following the Battle of
Gettysburg, army deserter John Terril flees south,
knowing that he faces a firing squad if caught. In
Texas, during the aftermath of the Civil War, he is
befriended by a Mexican family and marries the
daughter. But he becomes victim of a terrible crime.
In seeking vengeance he falls foul of the law and
faces the hang-rope. However, events from the past
enable him to continue his pursuit of Diego Armijo,
the man who has reduced his life to a living hell.
He trails his prey to the Staked Plains, the domain
of the Comanche Indians. |
MAN WITHOUT A YESTERDAY
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Robbed of his memory by a
head wound, Johnny No Name finds himself lost in the
Black Hills of Dakota. He is held captive by Holy
Jack, a religious zealot, whose daughter turns to
Johnny for help. Together, they are hounded by her
irate father, bounty hunters, hostile Sioux and even
the law. |
THE BECKONING NOOSE
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An Indian attack on the
family homestead left Billy Dundas alone in the
world. Billy then discovered his own vulnerability
when his destiny became entangled with that of the
notorious outlaw Clay Hollis. Unjustly charged with
murder and sentenced to death, only a miracle can
save Billy now. |
RENEGADE ROSE
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When Rosie McGlowery
accompanied her preacher father on the great trek to
Oregon, she little suspected that she was destined
to share the notoriety of female outlaws such as
Belle Starr and Cattle Annie. |
LEGACY OF LEAD
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When Frank Miller, an
escaped convict, jumps from a train in Kansas, he's
desperate to prove his innocence. He assumes another
man's identity, but becomes ensnared in more
trouble. Greed amongst local ranchers causes a
flurry of murders, and Frank is accused and jailed.
Now the target for the lynch-crazy vigilantes, Frank
receives a proposition. Will this offer him
salvation? Amidst the bullets and violence, he
struggles for justice and to shake off the shackles
of both past and present. |
GRAND VALLEY FEUD
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Returning from the East to
the family ranch, Jim Bannerman learns that his
father has been killed by an unknown assailant. With
the law proving ineffective, Jim sets out to bring
the killer to justice and restore peace to the
valley. |
THE MAVERICKS
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Adam Ballard serves eight
years in prison for a crime he did not commit. On
release, he returns to the Texas valley where he
grew up, determined to prove his innocence and
reclaim the respect of his family. But with his
father dead and his step-mother re-married, he finds
past and present entwined in a web of violence. Adam
is drawn into a situation even worse than that of
eight years previously and played out against the
sinister background of the vast thorned brasada, the
greatest breeding refuge for feral cattle ever
known. |
ESCAPE TO PURGATORY
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Wes Cullen has escaped
imprisonment and goes to live with a young widow who
is in trouble herself. As she is trying to keep the
land she and her late husband farmed, a price is
placed on Cullen's head and he is drawn even closer to a rope's
end. |
TRAIL TO REDEMPTION
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The infidelity of a young
bride blasts Paxton Cobb’s family apart and
unleashes hatred that leads to violence and death.
Saddled with remorse, Paxton flees for his life,
knowing that his father will pursue him, intent on
hounding him to fearsome retribution. His fight for
redemption leads him through tragedy, war, love,
heartbreak and injury, and forces him to question
the very roots of his being. |
COMANCHERO RENDEZVOUS
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After the Civil War, John
Willard was assigned special duty by the president
himself which was to take him to the Staked Plains
in Texas. The region was repellent and menacing, a
land of death inhabited by Indians and outlaws.' |
THE PINKERTON MAN
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Frank Glengarry, a Pinkerton
detective tracks down the infamous Childeater Gang
killing one of the van Bremer twins whilst three
fugitive escape. Trailing them, Glengarry
confronts the widow of the man he has killed. With
the odds stacked against him, he now faces a
showdown with the leader of the Childeater Gang. |
RIDE INTO DESTINY
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When Russian
Prince Michael takes his young wife Kathrine on a
hunting expedition in the American wilderness, it
seems great sport – until the hunters become the
hunted. The Sioux massacre the hunting party and
carry off Kathrine into hideous captivity. Only one
man survives the attack: Prince Michael’s servant
William Bailey, who is obsessed with Kathrine. Now,
alone in the wilderness and badly wounded, Bailey is
kept alive by his determination to rescue her |
THE FRONTIERSMAN
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Frank Riddle flees from his tyrannical father
and heads west to the Californian Gold Fields.
But on the way, he encounters terrible Indian
atrocity. At first, he hates and fears the
Indians, but when he takes a Modoc Indian woman
as his squaw his allegiances change. As the
heavy-handed army moves in, Riddle fights not
only to save lives but also to reconcile his own
conscience.
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LUST TO KILL
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Ex-lawman Grant Mayo
finds himself in a land terrorized by vigilantes. A
man imbued with an evil lust to kill holds the town
of Barclay in a grip of fear. Grant is the only
person brave enough to stand against him. He is
drawn into a maelstrom of gunfights, lynchings,
murder and abduction. Finally, he must pit his wits,
single-handed, against the man who has turned the
territory into a killing field. |
BENDERS BOOT
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In bloody Kansas, in 1872,
Conroy McClure is searching for his missing brother.
At a remote inn, he becomes involved with an evil
family and, in particular, the she-devil of a
daughter who ensnares men in a murderous web of
sensuality. Local vigilantes storm the inn, intent
on lynching the entire family. But the killers have
fled, taking McClure with them. Buried in the
adjacent orchard are twelve brutally mutilated
bodies, including a little girl who was clearly
buried alive. But what is the fate of Conroy
McClure? |
THE EARLY LYNCHING
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Fearing that he might
have to fight people of his own blood, young Rice
Sheridan leaves behind his adoptive Comanche parents
and finds work ion the Double Star Ranch. Three
years later, he and his boss Seth Early are ambushed
by outlaws, and their leader, the formidable Vince
Corby, brutally murders Early. Rice survives and
finds himself pitched into a maelstrom of deception
and treachery. Confronting death at every turn he
knows he must face a showdown with Corby. |
FURY AT TROONS FERRY
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Darkness was taking hold as
he strode purposefully up the street. The air was
cold, bringing a shiver to his spine and all the
stores were closed and the sidewalks quiet. The only
sounds came from the saloon; the desultory notes of
a piano, the clink of glasses, the raucous voices of
men and the shrill laughter of women. His wife,
Leah, had once told him that nothing was achieved by
violence. Now he was convinced that she'd been
wrong. The desire to inflict vengeance brought the
bitter taste of bile to his mouth. |
UNDER WESTERN SKYS - SHORT
STORIES OF THE OLD WEST |
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Here is a wide spectrum of
stories featuring lawmen, train-robbers, bank
hold-ups, ranchers, Indians, trappers, soldiers,
settlers and much more. Men and women, larger than
life, some of whom would die as heroes, some as
villains, some as unknown, but all of them
contributed to the great struggle for the western
frontier. |
FORTHCOMING TITLES:
TRAIL TO THE CAZADORES |
Duncan and four other men had
ridden into the desert. They’d been bound together
by motives such as greed, hatred, law enforcement
and compassion. Now, Duncan felt intensely alone,
more so than at any time in his life. His companions
were gone, so was his panicked horse, taking with it
his water canteen, saddle and rifle. He was lost in
the vastness of unfamiliar, hostile terrain. And to
top it all, he had been badly wounded. He cursed
aloud. He suspected that the Indians would soon
return to get his scalp. |
MISSOURI VIGILANTES |
General Sherlock, Commander of the District, has
issued an order to exterminate the bandits of Taney
County, to shoot them like animals and hang all
prisoners. Sixteen-year-old Billy Stark takes part
in an attempt to steal and Army pay-roll, but it
proves to be a trap and now the military are on his
trail. Fleeing for his life, Billy strives to
maintain his morality, but he finds himself drawn
deeper into a web of evil. |
JOURNEY INTO JEOPARDY |
Former Pinkerton Detective Frank Glengarry is called
out of retirement for one final task: to deliver a
ransom and obtain the release of a senator’s
kidnapped daughter. He is assured there will be no
danger, but this proves to be a massive
understatement. In one of the remotest parts of
Oregon, he falls victim to a vicious attack and ends
up in trouble with the law. Combatting ruthless
killers and a mob of vigilantes who are intent on
lynching him, his situation is further complicated
by the wiles of a greedy woman. Facing awesome odds,
Frank battles for survival along a path that leads
to a confrontation with his worst fears. |
OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
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Goose
Pimples |
Short Story World |
What Mark said about NewNovelist
NewNovelist has proved most useful in
the preparation of my novels. Its great
asset is ease of navigation through the
system. Good use is made of screen space
which is uncluttered and streamlined.
The word processor panel occupies center
place and on each side are panels that can be individually
displayed for notes, resources, reports, characters, places,
objects and ideas. These can be either hidden or displayed.
There are many more useful and easily accessible functions
readily available. In my opinion NewNovelist provides all
the help needed as I move along the creative path of writing
a novel. I wouldn’t be without it.
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