Born Melbourne, Australia


Studied Printing & Graphic Art leaving me with the smell of ink on paper and paper cuts that are forever in my blood.


In 1966I I sailed to England then following a short stint working in a printing company in Norwich, I ended up managing a bar in Earls Court – known then as ‘Kangaroo Valley’.
 I travelled widely in Europe before returning to Australia via a stay in South Africa until Apartheid open my eyes to racial discrimination.


In 1969 I joined an independent film workshop that produced short (20-minute) features.
 One was my original screenplay, THE FORGOTTEN SPIRIT. This lead to work on two major feature films and a TV series as a designer and crew member.


From 1975 to 2000, I ran my own graphic design studio that included book and film poster design.
 During this period, I contributed articles to design magazines and travel sites.
 From 1998 I began plotting my first novel.

Two research trips to Prague resulted in SECRETSINCITY (2012), subsequently re-packaged as GOOSE HUNT (2017).
 I followed up with my second novel, SAVING SPADE (2017). Then a visit to Timor Leste gave me the idea for my third novel, SERUM (2021).


I’m currently working on two novels. A crime thriller linked to an 1840 incident in South Australia, and part biographical, part fiction novel set in 60s London and the Viet Nam war.


I now live on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast where the sub-tropical climate wets and whets my imagination.