About me
Thank you very much for taking the time to find out a little more about me and my work.
The idea of sharing my thoughts with the world has filled me with a great deal of trepidation in the past. Constantly plagued by self-deprecating ideas, the thought of failure or ridicule was a barrier that I raised against myself. It was a comfort even.
However, fortunate enough to receive the vital encouragement I needed, I started to write. And, at last, I started to find a voice. What I hope that this voice transmits as you read my work – fiction or otherwise – are the following elements:
- A strong social message
- Stories inspired or based on real events
- Honest emotions and writing with true meaning
Storyline
- 1976
Born in Hertforshire, United Kingdom.
- 1996
Graduated from New College Durham after studying Music Industry Management.
- 1997
Spent a year in Australia – the first of over two and a half years there,
- 2003
Obtained an English Language Teaching qualification in Brighton, UK.
- 2007
Moved permanently to Spain, initially to the Basque Country, but a year later to the Canary Islands.
- 2019
Left the Canary islands and spent the year living in Portugal and France.
- 2019
Ceased working as an English teacher and Cambridge ESOL examiner and began to work full-time on translations and writing.
- 2020
Covidiots – Idiotic acts and bizarre behaviour released in April.
- 2021
Publication of debut novel The Butcherbird Tree, the first in the two-part Butcherbird series
- Summer 2023
Publication of We Are the Tide – the second book in the Butcherbird series.
