Author: VM KNOX

Growing up in Sydney in the 50’s and 60’s, V M Knox attended both Ravenswood and Abbotsleigh schools. Following her secondary education she trained as a primary teacher then as a nurse, specializing in burns care. While working in the health industry, she studied singing at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music and worked in a semi-professional capacity as an opera singer for over twenty years. While music and nursing dominated her early adult life, she later worked in an administrative capacity for the Dean of St Andrew’s Cathedral, Sydney, and in the real estate industry. Coming to writing later in life has meant that her varied life experiences, coupled with a love of history have had a strong influence on her writing. She is married with two children and numerous grandchildren.

Thank you for your review

Rating: 5 out of 5.

I thought this episode of Clement Wisdom very enjoyable, I hope you will soon have another one lined up. It looks as if you intend that Wisdom should stay and perhaps marry Evelyn after the war of course. Kathleen R

by VM KNOX

Japanese Code Book

The Japanese operational code JN25 is central to my fourth book in the Clement Wisdom series. ‘West Wind Clear”. Follow Clement on his latest adventure across Australia and into Singapore.

West Wind Clear Available now online and in selected bookstores.

by VM KNOX

Exmouth Gulf

Turquoise bay in Cape range National Park near Exmouth, Western Australia

During WW2, there was a Naval Base consisting only of a Flying Boat anchorage, a tender and a fuel supply. In my fourth book in this series, “West Wind Clear”, Clement and his team return to Australia via this outpost in Western Australia.

West Wind Clear Available now online and in selected bookstores.

by VM KNOX

Christmas Island

In my fourth book, in the Clement Wisdom Series,  “West Wind Clear” this tiny, remote island is visited by Clement’s commando team in January 1942.  During WW2 Christmas Island was occupied by the Japanese from early 1942 to October 1945.

West Wind Clear Available now online and in selected bookstores.

by VM KNOX

VM Knox in Singapore.

The latest adventure of Clement Wisdom leads VM Knox to Labrador Battery, Labrador Nature Reserve Pasir Panjang Singapore for research. Clement Wisdom embarks on a mission to rescue Captain John Winthorpe from Singapore and take him, and a vital secret he carries, back to Australia.

WEST WIND; CLEAR AVAILABLE ONLINE & IN SELECTED BOOK STORES JUNE 29,2022

by VM KNOX

VM Knox behind the wheel of MV KRAIT.

This photograph was taken in Sydney, Australia during research for West Wind; Clear. This wooden-hulled ship is famous for its use during World War II by the Z Special Unit of Australia during the raid against Japanese ships anchored in Singapore Harbour. Be sure to follow Clements latest adventure as he is preparing to leave Australia and return to Britain, Major Clement Wisdom is seconded to lead a small guerrilla force.  

WEST WIND; CLEAR AVAILABLE ONLINE & IN SELECTED BOOK STORES JUNE 29,2022

by VM KNOX

West Wind Clear

The fourth book in the Clement Wisdom Series.

The fourth in the Clement Wisdom Series; West Wind, Clear.

In late 1941, the Pacific is a very different place from only one year earlier.  Japan threatens and vast numbers of Imperial Army spies have infiltrated throughout the Pacific Islands in readiness for conflict.

Just as he is preparing to leave Australia and return to Britain, Major Clement Wisdom is seconded to lead a small guerrilla force.  Their mission: to rescue Captain John Winthorpe from Singapore and take him, and a vital secret he carries, back to Australia.

While enroute to the island bastion of the British Far East Fleet, Clement learns that Malaya, Singapore, and Pearl Harbour have all been bombed and war with Japan is declared.

With no up-to-date intelligence on the volatile region, and leading a group of men he barely knows, much less trusts, Clement’s orders leave him with no option but to proceed.  His fears are compounded when one of his men dies in an apparent suicide and it seems likely that there is an enemy spy on board; one who will manipulate and kill to evade discovery.

AVAILABLE ONLINE & IN SELECTED BOOK STORES JUNE 29,2022

by VM KNOX