Tony Boullemier was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1945 and trained there

as a journalist before joining the Daily Express in Fleet Street.

 

In 1975, together with his wife Marie and partners, he started his own

newspaper group in Northampton and was its managing director for 14 years.

The company was publishing 15 titles when it sold out to an international

publisher in 1988.

 

In 1990 Tony set up as a consultant and began producing corporate magazines.

He switched to writing in 2003 – first an historical novel Leonie and the last

Napoleon – and recently The Little Book of Monarchs.

 

His lifelong fascination with history was first encouraged by his parents,

followed by some inspiring teachers at Newcastle Royal Grammar School.

And his studies never end. He has visited some 50 European battlefields, many

with Holts Tours and some led by the late TV historian Professor Richard

Holmes.  And for nearly 20 years he attended lectures by the late medieval expert

and author David Baldwin – the man who in 1986 wrote that the remains of Richard III would be unearthed by an excavator beneath a car park in Leicester.

 

“History is all around us,” says Tony. “It explains why we are what we are. And how we came to be here.”

 

Tony, married with two children, lives in Northamptonshire and spends his spare time following sporting interests that include cricket, football, golf and skiing.

 

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