Chris Speck is an English teacher, writer and musician from East Yorkshire in the UK. His first book, Beast, set on The North Hull Estate, deals with a young boxer who loses his dad to cancer and a huge wolf that stalks the banks of Barmston Drain. A North Sea Tale, published by Flat City Press, is a murder mystery set on a North Sea trawler at the height of the cod wars in 1975. '..the gutting of fish, waves as big a s buses and the freezing cold water of The North Sea in your wellies..." His latest novel, The Great Frost, is a historical romance set in Chris' home village of Cherry Burton during the bitter cold of 1709. It has highwaymen in it. "Meg and Nana know the cold will get worse – because everything always does. When a wounded highwayman bangs on their door in the night, and they take him in, they don’t realise just how much worse it will get." Due for release in July 2022, Flat City Cars is a present day gangland thriller set in a Hull taxi office. After getting a degree in philosophy, the only talent Chris had was, 'playing the guitar - and not very well'. He spent his twenties travelling the world, first as a guitar teacher and then teaching English, in countries as diverse as Hungary, Spain and Papua New Guinea, before returning to the flat lands of East Yorkshire. He likes warm beer, running, musical instruments with strings, his two teenagers and feeding people. Not in that order, of course. He's also a much better guitarist and singer these days, and plays washboard in the legendary skiffle group, Black Kes. Oh, and if you want to do a cool magic trick on him, he always carries the 10 of spades in his wallet.