Ernest Victor Thompson

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(14 July 1931 – 19 July 2012) was an English author of historical novels. Thompson served in the

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for nine years and then joined the

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Police. He later became the chief security officer for the Department of Aviation in

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. In 1970 he moved to Cornwall to concentrate on being an author. Thompson specialised in historical novels mainly based in Cornwall and wrote over 40 books. His novel ''Chase the Wind'' was voted as the best historical novel of the year. Thompson was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the

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for services to literature and the community in Cornwall.New Year Honours List
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Books

*1977 ''Chase the Wind'' *1978 ''Harvest of the Sun'' *1979 ''Music Makers'' *1980 ''Ben Retallick'' *1981 ''The Dream Traders'' *1982 ''Singing Spears'' *1983 ''The Restless Sea'' *1984 ''100 Years on Bodmin Moor'' *1984 ''Cry Once Alone'' *1985 ''Republic'' *1985 ''Polrudden'' *1986 ''The Stricken Land'' *1988 ''Becky'' *1989 ''God's Highlander'' *1990 ''Lottie Trago'' *1991 ''Cassie'' *1992 ''Whychwood'' *1992 ''Blue Dress Girl'' *1993 ''Mistress of Polrudden'' *1994 ''Tolpuddle Woman'' *1995 ''Ruddlemoor'' *1996 ''Lewin's Mead'' *1996 ''Moontide'' *1997 ''Cast No Shadows'' *1997 ''Mud Huts and Missionaries'' *1998 ''Fires of Evening'' *1999 ''Here, There and Yesterday'' *1999 ''Homeland'' *1999 ''Somewhere a Bird is Singing'' *2000 ''Winds of Fortune'' *2001 ''Seek a New Dawn'' *2002 ''The Lost Years'' *2003 ''Paths of Destiny'' *2004 ''Tomorrow Is For Ever'' *2005 ''The Vagrant King'' *2006 ''Brothers in War'' *2007 ''Though the Heavens May Fall'' *2008 ''No Less Than the Journey'' *2009 ''Churchyard and Hawke'' *2010 ''Beyond the Storm'' *2012 ''Hawke's Tor'' *2012 ''The Bonds of Earth''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Thompson, Ernest Victor 1931 births 2012 deaths Members of the Order of the British Empire English historical novelists Bards of Gorsedh Kernow British police officers Royal Navy sailors Novelists from Cornwall 20th-century English novelists