EWG representative for English language teaching (ELT) materials

I’ve been involved in English Language Teaching for more than fifty years and my first published ELT material was an album of ‘teaching songs’ called Mister Monday, which I recorded with the band I was in when I was 23.

Since then, I’ve written or co-written about thirty ELT titles, including a dozen series of course books. My UK publishers include Oxford University Press, Macmillan and Cengage. I’ve also been published locally in Spain, Germany, Poland, China and Indonesia.

I was fortunate to be writing course materials at a time when paying royalties was the norm, and one of the reasons I became an EWG Committee member was to campaign on behalf of new writers who are not offered this option.

Back in the last century, before I concentrated on writing ELT materials, I was artistic director of the English Teaching Theatre, a company which toured the world performing stage-shows for learners of English. The ETT made more than 250 tours to 55 countries in Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia.


I completed a Masters in Creative Writing at Birkbeck College in 2017 and my first novel, The Duke’s Portrait, was published by Europe Books in 2021.