About me

I was born on the Isle of Wight, the small, diamond-shaped island off the south coast of England, in 1947. When I left school I moved to London, where I met my wife, Christine. I told her I wanted to be a writer so she worked to pay the rent while I spent a couple of years learning how to put a story together. With the arrival of our three daughters though, we needed some extra income - children eat an awful lot! I got a job as a postman in the mornings and wrote in the afternoons until eventually some people started commissioning scripts. In 1980 I somewhat reluctantly hung up my mail sack and started calling myself a professional writer.

For the next 25 years I wrote radio and television dramas for both children and adults. If you're interested, there's a list of my previous work below. When our daughters finally stopped eating us out of house and home and moved out to go their own ways, Christine and I decided to have a change. We've both always loved travelling so over the past few years we've spent months visiting wonderful places as far and wide as New Zealand, Laos, Cambodia, Chile and the Galapagos Islands. In fact, the photo at the top of this page was taken on a beach in South America.

As well as the globetrotting, we also decided to move away from television and focus instead on children's fiction. I'd had the idea for Brind and the Dogs of War in my head for a long time so it was great to finally get it down on paper. I loved writing it and haven't been able to stop since.

We now live on the Isle of Wight again where I spend the mornings writing and the afternoons working in the garden and walking along the cliffs.