Hello

After years of building up a business I finally broke free and now enjoy writing the sort of books I like to read and I hope you will too, drawing on the amazing city of Edinburgh to provide a backdrop for a hidden fantasy world. I'm also working on a historical novel, set in the eighteenth century.

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My first degree was in history, since when I've had a haphazard career, taking in conserving bats, managing businesses that would have been better left unmanaged, bookselling, and other random things, all of which come in handy by providing odd snippets of inspiration for my writing.

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I now live in an old railway-workers cottage in Peebles with mywife, Rona, a one-eyed cat and a small, opinionated Jack-Russell Terrier. In my spare time I help Rona with her amazing plant nursery business, Quercus Garden Plants and teach people to fly gliders.