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I have been writing since I was eight. My first book received the best review ever from its one and only reader - my brother. He declared I had "copied" the story from a "proper book"! I live in Wiltshire and teach in a village school. I write whenever I can. Without writing, my whole world would probably fall apart.
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My first degree was in Law. I had practiced as an attorney in South Africa for a few years before I moved to New Zealand and completed my post-graduate teaching diploma. All that was a far cry from my original dream of becoming a... philosopher. Only the threat of my parents disinheriting me stopped me from following that path.
My favourite authors include the masters of the dark human psyche. I adore Dostoyevski, Joseph Conrad, JR Tolkien, Graham Greene, and Stephen King. I read all I could lay my hands on that was penned by Anne Rice and Ruth Rendell.
I have gone through different genre-stages: when on heroic fantasy, I devoured David Gemmell; when on crime fiction, my favourite was PD James. I admire Margaret Atwood's ability to get me engaged in her characters' lives as if I did not have my own.
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I have completed a trilogy of children's adventure stories "Home, and About", which is available as e-book, or as three colour paperbacks: "To Kiss a Frog", "Monkey Business" and "To Tie Loose Ants".
"The Quite Contrary Colin Pluck", a story about a reluctant hero, Corvalpluck is out on kindle and in paperback.
I have written "In the Web of Time" for teenager/young adult reader. It is a tale of love and revenge set across centuries and continents.
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Author's page on Amazon
My bookstore on Lulu
Paperbacks available via Lulu
My blog
My commentaries, diary entries, grievances, highs and lows.
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