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Our authors
Ian Ayris
Ian Ayris was born in Dagenham, Essex, in August 1969. Having spent most of his childhood more interested in kicking a tennis ball about the school playground with his mates than actually learning anything, he managed to leave the public education system in 1985 with but two O' Levels and a handful of C.S.E.'s, And a love of writing. Click here to read more |
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R.C. BridgestockCarol and Bob Bridgestock were both born and lived in West Yorkshire until they relocated to the Isle of Wight in 2003. Between them they have a staggering 47years employment with the police, Carol being a member of the Civilian support staff and Bob being a Police Officer. They never had any inclinations to become authors, others found their verbal stories thrilling which led them to put pen to paper.
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David ByerleeDavid was born in Townsville, Queensland Australia. At an early age he travelled with his family to the USA where his father trained and worked as a scientist.
In his teens he returned to Australia where he completed his secondary school and followed qualifications in Art, English and teaching. David has long had an interest in the creative arts, and began fiction writing during his twenties. Following years of teaching in Australia he worked overseas in Japan and the UK. Click here to read more |
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Alfredo de GallegosBorn in 1942 in El Salvador of a Salvadorian father and Costa Rican mother. His father died in 1948 and his mother returned with her young family to Costa Rica to live with her parents and there they stayed until her appointment in 1955 as Costa Rica's Ambassador to England. That same year, his mother travelled to London to take up her position accompanied by Alfredo and his younger brother. In 2008, after a long and varied working life,redundancy forced him to retire and he decided to indulge a long-held ambition to write a book.
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Martin GoodmanMartin Goodman writes both fiction (shortlisted for the Whitbread Award) and award-winning non-fiction, including biography, sacred travel and shamanism. His work draws on vivid experience gained living and working around the world, including in China, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United States. He is the Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Hull, and Director of the Philip Larkin Centre for Poetry and Creative Writing.
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Mark HarrisonMark was born in Handforth, Cheshire and educated at Wilmslow Grammar School and Macclesfield College. In 2001, he left behind a thirty year career in local government in Manchester and South East London and moved to a small village inland from Spain’s Northern Costa Blanca. After adjusting to his “lifestyle transplant” he began writing and completed a humorous account of his early exploits entitled I Want to Live in Spain, published in 2004. A first novel, Missing, followed in 2006. His second novel, a murder mystery entitled Spanish Lies, is now published by Caffeine Nights.
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Darren E LawsBorn in East London in 1962. Darren's first writing success came in the mid 1990's, winning first place in a short story competition for a BBC Radio 4 arts program. The thrill of hearing his words read on Radio 4 drove him to write short stories of a dark and quirky nature before progressing to lengthier works. Darren then crafted his first novel ‘Turtle Island’, a crime thriller, which was picked up by an American publisher.
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Nick QuantrillNick Quantrill was born and raised in Hull, an isolated industrial city in East Yorkshire. From a young age, Nick has always had a fascination with crime novels, starting young by annoying the local librarians for Famous Five novels.
Never realising he could be a writer, Nick spent most of his twenties shouting and bawling his way around the Sunday League football pitches of the city, learning the hard way and meeting an impressive array of characters. With a handful of trophies and permanently damaged ankles to show for his troubles, football was swapped for education, spending the next six years studying of a degree in Social Policy. Click here to read more |
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AJ TaftBorn and raised in Burnley, Alison has dreamed of becoming a writer ever since reading Harriet the Spy by torchlight under the bedcovers, aged about eight. After completing a degree in Social Policy, Alison lived in Crete and spent time in the Middle and Far East. In the mid-nineties she was a keen supporter of the free party network. She has worked in a variety of jobs but after being sacked once too often for gross insubordination, Alison decided to heed the words of one employer who described her as ‘unmanageable’, and became a full time writer.
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James ThorntonJames Thornton, “One of the ten people who could change the world” (New Statesman) is one of the world’s top environmental lawyers, former head of an international neuroscience institute, and a member of the bars of California, New York, and the United States Supreme Court. He is the founding CEO of ClientEarth, with offices in London, Brussels, Paris and Warsaw.
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Nick TriplowNick Triplow was born in London in 1964. After spending much of the 1980s riding scooters around Kent and south London, playing guitar for (very) cult indie band I Can’t Scream and trying to find publishers for some ‘rough-arsed’ poems, Nick bit the bullet, went north of the river, and studied for a degree in Writing, Publishing and English at Middlesex University. Nick found validation for his ideas and writing, along with a realisation that if he was going to be another George Orwell or Graham Greene, he’d better get a bloody move on.
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