I was born in Bristol, England, and after writing on and off during a successful career in IT, I turned professional with Entanglement. I'm inspired by the likes of Douglas Adams, PG Wodehouse, Neil Gaiman and Agatha Christie

Reviewers describe my work as quirkily funny, with characters you’d enjoy a drink with, events that are just strange enough to be believable and footnotes that’ll have you rushing out to buy the ingredients to bake your own cakes

I live in the English Cotswolds town of Chipping Norton, with three cats, and as for my inspiration over the years ...

Books

When I started choosing books for myself as a child, it was things like J Mead Falkner’s Moonfleet, Rosemary Sutcliffe’s The Eagle of the Ninth and of course, the Narnia books of CS Lewis. As a teenager, I absorbed everything I could find by Spike Milligan, who I was later privileged to meet, and who’s absurdist sense of humour stayed with me for years. The first SciFi book I read was Tales of the White Hart by Arthur C Clarke, and the marvellous Douglas Adams came years later. Then in 2009 I discovered both PG Wodehouse and Neil Gaiman, whose respective loves of language and bizarre characters captured me from the start

TV & Film

Before even Clarke, came Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and the other Gerry Anderson series, from where my love of Sci-Fi grew. I was lucky enough to be born at a time that I’ve seen Doctor Who from the beginning, since when my favourite series’ have become Battlestar Galactica, A Town called Eureka, and the various incarnations of Star Trek, along with movies like Moon, Silent Running, and Dark Star

Music

At the time of writing, I have 9,819 songs in iTunes which is apparently 27.6 days of music, although lately, I’ve been listening to Spotify a lot, particularly because of a new-found love for the band, Eels. Generally though, I like guitar-based material such as from Passenger, Noah and the Whale, Fun and Alan Jackson