The Madness of Captain Mills

Description

Captain John Powell Mills voyages across the oceans entrusted with conducting emigrants to new worlds, but with a mind gradually losing its hold on reality and an increasing dependence on alcohol. His passengers and crew are threatened with disaster. Based on a true story.

Bryan Kesselman’s first book, Paddington Pollaky Private Detective (a biography of a Victorian private investigator) was published in 2015. The Madness of Captain Mills is based on real events, and like the first book involved extensive research involving contact with archives in several countries.  Bryan is a composer, musical director and opera singer and lives in the UK. Works include music and lyrics for an opera based on the Dreyfus Affair, first performed in 1998, and “Zimbabwe Suite” for choir and orchestra, commissioned for performances in Zimbabwe and London.