Hollow

Born in Birmingham, a ‘child of the sixties’, part of that generation of working class kids first encouraged to see continuing in education as a real option.

Busked my way through university, followed by a succession of bands before dreams of ‘making it’ were bludgeoned to death by Punk.

Teaching for forty years in deprived areas of a major city, the experience at times providing a close-up of lives blighted by crime and social ills. More importantly, it more often offered insight into the lives of so many others who daily overcome circumstances that would defeat and overwhelm most of us.

Now living in rural North Yorkshire and writing full time – having taught everyone from convicted murderers and psychopaths through to premier league footballers and Hollywood stars – my interests focus on untold stories and unheard voices.