I grew up on a stony stretch of the south coast, nourished by a balanced diet of fantasy, sci-fi, horror and adventure. Raised amid the happy – if noisy – chaos of siblings, foster-siblings and cousins, it’s little wonder I frequently escaped to the worlds of books, occasionally feigning illness to stay home from school to read Ursula K. Le Guin, Tolkien, Terry Brooks or John Wyndham (sorry, Mum). Despite reading voraciously and asking endless questions, it took me an embarrassingly long time to realise I could be an author too – and longer still to make it happen.

Along the way, I’ve been a product designer, a communications director, a speechwriter, magazine editor and webcaster (though rarely all at once). For the last 25 years I worked in digital tech, and ran digital agencies. Nowadays, as well as writing books, I’m also a copywriter and editor, with a specialism in tech and digital engineering. Those themes frequently feature in my fiction, although my speculative contemporary adventures tend to have much higher stakes and far fewer meetings. 

I live in South London with my wife and (when they’re not at uni) our two daughters. Despite the subjects I write about, I am not a robot, nor am I a spy. But that’s what a spy would say, isn’t it?