I'm not a huge fan of autobiography, but if you really want that David Copperfield kind of crap...

I was born in the Orient, Singapore to be precise, where I lived for the first two years of my life before moving to the smaller, duller, much colder town of Lowestoft, in the east of England; two years which, although not imprinted on memory, left a yen deep in my bones that has sent me across Asia throughout my adult life, travelling, living, working, beginning in 1997 with India, the setting for my novel Delhi Deadlines, and continuing to such countries as Iran, Pakistan, Myanmar (Burma), Indonesia and China, where I've been living since 2002.

In addition to several novels, I've written a travel book and, professionally, text books for academic English. I'm also big on website design, playing mahjong, ambling about cities and drinking green tea. In short, I'm creative, well adjusted to life in China, and have a pretty strong pair of legs.

I currently live in Guangzhou in Guangdong (Canton) province of south China, dividing my time between website design, child rearing (two boys), teaching academic English, and, in my spare moments, managing the international department of a prestigious high school.