Talk:Michael White (author)

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This looks rather like a promotional piece written by Mr White.

Shame!

Charlie T —Preceding unsigned comment added by charliet (talk • contribs)

Well, you should've seen it before. It's gotten better. Feel free to reword and cleanup. It's a stub now. I only came here b/c I am halfway thru Leonardo right now. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 16:57, 19 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Michael White & The Thompson Twins

I have just read White's book "The Fruits of War" and it states that he was a member of The Thompson Twins. The Wikipedia page on him repeats this, although the Wikipekia page on The Thompson Twins makes absolutely no reference to him at all in the many line-up changes to the band. While I have no reason to doubt the story, it appears that his role was extremely limited in terms of the time period of involvement. If so, it seems slightly offsides to me for him to continue to use this as a claim to fame when his writing does that for him in its own right. Perhaps someone can identify the exact time period of his invovlement in the band?87.200.4.3 03:39, 1 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

MW & TT

MW played with the TT for a short time in '82/83. It's covered in his 2000 autobiography 'Thompson Twin'. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.240.254.217 (talk) 19:42, 21 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Promo (still)

Still looks like a promo article to me. Who the h*ck is Michael White?!! Never ever heard of him. A note in Galileo_affair Redondi's_theory seems to indicate that this article is only here to promote an ignorable guy that nobody wish to give a damn to. "Science writer", is that really a merit?? Rursus dixit. (^mbork³!) 20:37, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bookman award???

The article (and his numerous self-written bios on the internet) claim that his book The Last Sorcerer won the Bookman Award in 1997 or 1998. But I tried to verify that by looking at the actual list of winners of that award, which is here, and he is not listed. I have tagged that sentence as "dubious". --MelanieN (talk) 15:56, 14 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The reference to the alleged award has now been taken out. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.26.0.172 (talk) 11:48, 19 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

30,000

Michael White, in his novel, "The Venetian Detective", says that 30,000 Protestants were killed in Paris alone with the approval of "the church". The exact date of the publication of the novel is not obvious. Like all his efforts, it is about dead bodies. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.13.40.201 (talk) 09:09, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

2012

The novel, "The Kennedy Conspiracy", of 2012, has apparent blood on the cover. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.146.234.69 (talk) 09:18, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

More blood

One project of White's is called "Sleepers", "An Elizabethan Spooks", with "Vatican killers out for the Queen's blood". Another project is called "Twisted", with more blood. See whitediamondproductions.com.au for detail. The "Twisted" effort seems not to involve the Vatican etc. etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.23.140.67 (talk) 13:52, 6 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Still more

See the novel "The Kennedy Conspiracy" of 2012. The cover has apparent blood on it.

A secret is mentioned. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.49.192.213 (talk) 13:53, 28 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A journalist is hypnotised. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.49.192.213 (talk) 13:57, 28 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In another novel, the brains and hearts of dead bodies are "scooped out". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.49.192.213 (talk) 14:01, 28 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

White's publisher in 2007 was Wiedenfeld. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.49.192.213 (talk) 14:04, 28 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It is females who lose their brains and heart in "Equinox". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.49.192.213 (talk) 14:09, 28 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Michael White appears in the article on the Galileo affair. The initial appearance was written by Chris Jeynes of Surrey University in England. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.168.48.100 (talk) 12:59, 30 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"Wiedenfeld" often appears as "Weidenfeld". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.43.29.99 (talk) 15:23, 4 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The novel "Equinox" has been translated into 35 languages. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.25.129.16 (talk) 17:37, 20 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Novel Equinox

Sir Isaac Newton appears in the novel "Equinox". This enhances White's claim to be a scientist. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.41.2.57 (talk) 10:07, 26 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]