'I was born some time ago in West Yorkshire, of English, Irish and Jamaican heritage, and was raised, shortly after, in the small seaside town of Skegness, Lincolnshire, on the bracing east-coast of the UK. I’m married and have been based in London for over 20 years. My latest work is the spy-fi novel Shamstone, the second in the BARBELL series following The Glimmer Girl, in which according to a recent review ‘The spy fiction is uniquely underpinned by magic realism and Celtic folklore.’ Whilst having lived as, among other things, a musician, painter, martial artist and educator, in reality I’m more Take Five than ‘i5 and write mainly from research and imagination.'