After a varied career in education and heritage, including spending time as a museum curator and as a manager of historical document digitization, I now work mainly as a writer and reviewer of historical fiction. Some years ago I brought out a non-fiction book, Old Gramophones and Other Talking Machines, and in 2025 I published my first novel, A Cruel Corpse, a historical crime thriller set in the 18th century.   Born in the north of England, I have spent most of my life in the midlands and the south; currently I live with my family on the cusp of London and Chiltern Hills.