I was born in England in 1950 and educated at Watford Boys’ Grammar School and Sussex University, where my interest in natural history led me to read biology. However, since graduating I have devoted myself to writing.
My first published novel was The Stone Arrow (1978), which won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, administered by the Royal Society of Literature in London. This was the first in a trilogy. The trilogy was followed by The Penal Colony (1987), which formed the basis of the 1994 movie No Escape, starring Ray Liotta. Since then I have self-published.
I live in north Norfolk and my interests include birding, botany, cycling, and walking by the sea.
