Paul Fraser Collard

Paul Fraser Collard is a well known British writer of historical fiction and military fiction stories. He is particularly famous for writing the acclaimed series called Jack Lark series, featuring the adventures of a roguish, brutally courageous, and ambitious imposter from the Victorian times named Jack Lark. Collard says that his love for history, particularly military history, began during his childhood. Being a child of the 70s, he grew up reading too many Warlord and Commando comics as well as watching war movies such as The Longest Day, Bridge Too Far, Zulu, etc. He says that it was considered natural at that time to play soldiers, running around with friends using an armed finger and playing with plastic men fixed in martial poses. All that inspired Collard to recreate the fights and battles he watched on television. As he grew older, he discovered Bernard Cornwell’s novels and became delighted to read them.