Welcome to my website. These pages are primarily about two of my personal interests: writing and flying. The others - my family, travel, food and wine - I post on Facebook from time to time.

 Writing comes in two guises - novels and journalism. They are both later developments in my life but nevertheless hugely satisfying and personally rewarding.

 My first novel, The Clayton Account, was first published in 2008 and my second, The Aztec, came out in July 2010. I am currently working on a third and sketching a fourth! Why not?

 My journalistic journey started fifteen years ago with an article in the Financial Times though it was only in 2007 that I wrote the first of my contributions to Pilot and Today’s Pilot magazines.

 If you click on the buttons alongside you can read details of all the above.

 I was born in Argentina, came to England in my early teens and soon discovered the dubious joy of boarding school at Prior Park College in Bath. (www.priorparkschools.co.uk)

 After a couple of disappointing years trying to study Engineering in Bristol (what on earth ever made me do that?) I abandoned ship and made for the magnetic pull of sixties London.

 Earning money and travelling the world proved a more appealing option than undergraduate life - though I did, eventually, attend London University (www.bbk.ac.uk) and took a First in Spanish & Latin American Studies.
 

I joined the international sales department of a Hong Kong-based trading organisation that sent me first to Germany and later to the Far East. I remained with them until 1973, becoming a director and in turn working in Hong Kong, Manila, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Bahrain, Dubai as well as various locations in the USA.

 In 1976 I started my own trade consultancy business in Dubai and moved it to London in 1979. From London we catered primarily to clients in the banking world and my work took me frequently to foreign parts until reaching virtual retirement in 2003. I say “virtual” because by then I had become very involved with flying - as founder, chairman and co-owner of a flying club in Kent (www.lyddaero.co.uk) and the writing bug was seriously starting to bite.

 I met my wife, Vivienne in 1973 and we have been together ever since. We have two children - twins - now in their forties. William works in Media and lives with his wife, Rachel, and daughter Allegra in Tunbridge Wells. Victoria is a Veterinary Surgeon and lives with her husband, Peter, and their daughter, Fleur, close to us in Kent.

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