I was born in Lewes, East Sussex in 1958 into a family whose roots in the town can be traced back more than three hundred years. I was educated at Eastbourne College and the University of Warwick. After graduating, I qualified as a Chartered Accountant and persevered with a professional career in London until 1990, at which point I moved to Bangkok and worked for a while as a fashion model, a television extra, a news presenter for Radio Thailand and a teacher before securing a permanent job in the Bangkok office of an international accounting firm. 

I stayed in Bangkok for ten years. For most of my time there, I lived in King Mansion in Sathorn Road, a rather notorious hotel where police and immigration department raids were not uncommon. Many of its residents were eccentric; many sought the anonymity only a cheap hotel could offer. It was a place where bizarre stories would frequently be heard over a beer. Needless to say, my life in Thailand was fun. 

On returning to England, I ran a property development business in the Brighton area for a few years before before taking up a professional job again.

I have written a trilogy on the repercussions of Nick Price's raid on a Tibetan hilltop fort to retrieve the treasures of the Fourth Cart. The Avenging Buddha is loaded onto this site. The sequels, No Tears for the Fallen and The Tibetan Heist, can be found on Smashwords.