I was born in the Summer of 1969 in Dagenham, just on the border of East London. School was largely unproductive so my early adult years were spent putting up stalls at Romford Market, working in a record shop, gardening and road sweeping. After resigning from an insurance company to play in a band, I found myself unemployed for two years in the early nineties. It was during this time, at the age of 22, that I wrote my first novel - A Cleansing of Souls. I wrote my second novel, Tollesbury Time Forever, between 2008 and 2011. This would become the first book of the FRUGALITY Trilogy - the second being The Bird That Nobody Sees, which was published in July 2012. The final part of the trilogy - I Woke Up This Morning - was released in late April 2013. In terms of writing, my heroes are Jack Kerouac, John Steinbeck, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan and Tom Waits. In between writing novels, I have been married twice and I have three children. I have worked as a mental health nurse since 1997.

Tollesbury Time Forever - winner of the IBB Book of the Year 2012