I studied English at Hertford College, Oxford. During my last year I stayed in the room widely believed by undergraduates to have been Evelyn Waugh’s. I have also studied law and qualified as a barrister.
I moved to Paris with my wife a few years ago. We brought all our possessions with us in the back of a Ford Fiesta, except for those of my books which I could not throw away and which are still in my parents' garage. I was lucky enough to find a job and a flat before our money ran out and we have been here ever since. I now do a lot of my reading in the Champ de Mars, the park by the Eiffel Tower, which is less than five minutes walk from our home, and the setting for many scenes in my novel.
I wrote Jeanne Lebar in Death of an Heiress during my convalescence after a cycling accident in which I broke my shoulder and wrist. I have made a very good recovery and I'm now back at work and looking for a publisher.
I have worked as a teacher, a youth worker, a courier, an EFL trainer, a rights adviser, a barman, a school bus supervisor, a translator and a shelf-filler.
I have recently started to write a more domestic novel which examines what happens when a woman decides she wishes to preserve the material conveniences of her marriage without the erotic inconvenience of her husband's desire and therefore presents him with other women. I am planning a series of detective stories concerning a common law barrister in France attached to the French police and trying to make sense of the civil law system.