FOR many years I was a journalist on national newspapers in London; now I'm a full-time novelist and my dystopian future thriller, The Black Ditch, was recently published on Amazon.

 

Storytelling is my passion. Fiction can entertain, enlighten and tell emotional truths that factual journalism can't.

 

As well as being a novelist, I have a masters degree in displacement activity. I used to be a private pilot before the cost of bringing up two children clipped my wings so I now design and build my own electronics gear – it's cheaper, probably safer and I can use the results to play tottering piles of old-school CDs and vinyl that threaten to shift the tectonic plates on the Sussex coast where I live.

 

To be a writer you must be a reader and my tastes encompass most things to be found between book covers and on Kindle, though I'd probably draw the line at legal text books.

 

I enjoy hanging around waiting for flights at airports – the only places I'm free of that feeling I could be using my time more wisely – and I'd probably enjoy Michelin-starred restaurants and five-star hotels if I could afford them.

 

But, most of all, I enjoy the wonderful strangeness of the human animal. In the words of the late Arthur Lee, people are the greatest fun.