I love history because all history is bunk. The good guy always wins because the history of any battle or war is written by the victor. Kings and Politicians commission what is written about them. Richard the Lionheart, that great English icon, didn't even speak English. Finding out the truth is fun and the grist that makes your writing stand out. The truth is out there.

I got as far as Australia serving in the Royal Navy and subsequently qualified as a railway welding engineer. I also know the right way to blow a safe, which is never like it is shown in film, but I won't tell you how I learned this.

The Mystery Of Plymouth's Lost Castle. ISBN 978 1 900307 086, A short, non-fiction local interest book to be published shortly by Portal Children's story, The Ogre's Fairly Grotty published. Commissioned to write two books on aspects of the occult I used to act as Publisher's Agent for Brimax Children's Books covering all the West Country. That's selling books to bookshops, wholesalers etc. That gives me a little inside information.