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 Spain 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 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 youth worker, a courier, an EFL trainer, a rights adviser, a barman, 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.