Like the roughest of seas, they can rise up from nowhere and I can feel overwhelmed. It’s then I think of others; those that came before. My old Dad as a young man, boarding a ship in Leith, in winter, and going off from his family on an old steam ship, to feed the folk under siege in Northern Russia. A quiet, unsung hero of the Arctic Convoys.
But he came home. Yes, quieter still, and without the friends he’d left with, but he came home.
Before graduating in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh in 1995, I worked as a master joiner/carpenter. Following graduation from university, I studied for a post-graduate diploma in Community Education and worked as a literacy tutor in Community Learning and Development. I have gained education awards and published an academic paper on the use of Scots language in family literacy work. I have produced teachers' notes for the Scottish Book Trust.
My first work of fiction, Justified Sinner, was completed in 2016. Since then I have published three more novels in the JP Associate series.
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