About

I was born in 1956 – and getting more wrinkly by the day, at least I’m certainly beating my wife so she keeps telling me!

I was brought up in a comfortable middle class environment, although I’m not entirely sure what ‘middle class’ means these days; upper, lower, in between or just plain nowhere! My father, a solicitor, ran his own family practice while my mother remained at home to keep the house and offspring in good order.

Having obtained some ‘A’ levels, I went on to do a law degree and train as a lawyer in London, finally ending up at the College of Law in Lancaster Gate.

A not-particularly successful law student, I nevertheless completed my articles of clerkship and went on to do a short stint as a law lecturer. Unsuccessful at legal endeavour but an out and out genius at drinking and chasing after girls I eventually ended up travelling around Denmark and Israel in an attempt to ‘find myself’ and doing any particular job that came along.

I never did find myself (or my ‘roots’ come to that) but eventually discovered that I wasn’t bad at messing about with Legal Services Contracts in the Not For Profit Sector.

I did this for about eight years before concluding that the tedium of normality was not for me and that maybe I could turn the odd half decent sentence or two into a full blown novel.

And so here I am.