About the author & book

I am married with two adult children and live on the West Pennine Moors, about five miles from Bolton in the North West of England. My career has been defined by its evolution  from one area to another. I've been an accountant, a general manager and a management consultant and have worked in various parts of the world. My wife and I are now semi-retired, although we are increasingly involved in selling second hand books and ephemera from time to time, some charity work and occasional consultancy work. I have a theoretical physicist trained son involved in software development, a daughter working for Oxford  University in biological research science and a wife who is  virtually unbeatable at Scrabble. Conversation is rarely uninteresting.

‘Liverpool’ is my third novel and is a distant prequel to ‘A Lancashire Story’ and ‘Family Business’, partly factual narratives chronicling the story of a family between 1890 and 1950. Written in a similar style to the others, this book starts around 1840 and ends around 1853. Although inspired by fact, a considerable amount of creative license has been used to fill in the gaps, adding a bit of colour and circumstance to what might have been a basic list of people, times and events. The book is therefore very much a work of fiction.

Contacting me and blog

A contact form and a link to a book blog can be found on the ‘Family Business’ site here:

http://www.dmsltd.co/familybusiness/contact---blog/contact---blog.html

Other historical fiction novels chronicling later generations of the same family include ‘A Lancashire Story’ and ‘Family Business’. Both are generally available online, and in some book shops.