I was born in England and emigrated to Australia by ship at age eight. I have been an active musician since my teens, playing nine instruments, ten if the sung voice is included. I arranged, produced, and performed in a seven-musician production of Tubular Bells in the Adelaide Fringe Festival that received four-star reviews. I am a long-distance walker, climbing Ben Nevis, walking the Hadrian’s Wall track and much of the 1200-kilometre Heysen Trail in South Australia, and I continue to walk the many tracks and trails across Australia.
I have qualifications and long experience in Electronic and Communications Engineering plus a BA in English Literature/Music with Honours in Creative Writing and a BA in History/Classics with Honours in Crusade History, Criminology and Law and Society degrees, both with academic awards, a Graduate Diploma in Education — which led to a teaching career across Australia and in the UK — and am currently enrolled in a Bachelor Of Letters in Archaeology while tutoring senior school students in English and writing novels. My studies inform my books, which I hope are as entertaining and intriguing in the reading as they are in the writing.
