About me

I was born in Willesden Green, North-West London in 1964. During my teens, I played drums in a band, and in my 20s, I rode my motorbike, a Honda 650 Nighthawk, around much of South-East England. I travelled in America and Europe and worked variously as an accountant, a warehouse assistant, a print buyer, a door-to-door salesman and a dish washer in a roach-infested restaurant in Florida. Since 1995, I have been editing books for young people, and in 2001, I began to write. I have penned more than 40 books on a surprisingly wide range of topics, including sharks, artificial intelligence and the Battle of Britain, to name but a few. My longest book to date was a 300-page ‘Short History of the World’. My debut novel, ‘Chronosphere: Time Out of Time’, a future-set science fiction adventure, published in 2011.