I was born in Much Wenlock, Shropshire, England. I was brought up on a dairy farm near Church Stretton, attended William Brookes School and have lived in Shropshire all my life.

I love writing; initially letters, diaries and terrible song lyrics but when working on a degree dissertation twenty years ago found I could string a significant quantity of words together that would occasionally make sense. I wrote two novel-length manuscripts in the ’90s, one for children and one for adults.

I began researching ‘The Olympian’ a few years ago, inspired by the incredible connection between my home town and the London Olympics. The story started as a dramatisation of Wenlock gentleman Dr William Penny Brookes’ life but I've read far too many Douglas Adams and HG Wells novels for it to be a straight and sensible story and ‘The Olympian’ morphed into a children’s time travel quest adventure.

I prefer writing for children and love attempting to create a sense of wonder in my work. I've started the sequel, ‘The Inky Bird’ but am also midway through a masters degree (as well as having a full-time job and full-time family) so, whilst ‘The Inky Bird’ will hopefully be quicker than ‘The Olympian’, it’ll probably take a while to complete.