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I am the author of The Book of Origins, my first published book, which is based on a lifetime’s fascination with the beginning of everything.

Back in the 1950s, a very convincing salesman managed to swamp Walsall in Staffordshire, with subscriptions to a children’s encyclopaedia, with extracts of famous fiction thrown in. The whole encyclopaedia came in twelve monthly parts, and a dozen or so of my pals and I, were the lucky recipients of our parents’ far sightedness.

In a know-it-all, unofficial way, we kids formed the GP Club at school, which spent the occasional break-time swapping ‘did you know?’ facts from the books. Everyone knew how a spectroscope works, who did the murder in The Speckled Band by Arthur Conan Doyle, and who discovered America (or so we thought).

Reading those books stimulated my never-ending curiosity, and taught me to hold a healthy scepticism of received wisdom. The Book of Origins sprang from that scepticism. NOW OUT IN PAPERBACK AT JUST £8.99 IN ALL GOOD BOOKSHOPS.

Years of research in the British Library, and a trawl through the world’s best reference books, went into writing the book, and it has been the culmination of a lifetime’s passion for seeking out the origin of things.

I was born in the Black Country (mainly Staffordshire) and grew up in Walsall in the 1950s and ‘60s. I won the British Amateur Golf Championship in 1972 and 1974, and was selected to represent England and Great Britain, in every match that was played in those three years. I was also in the team that won the European Championship of 1973.

On the back of that amateur success, but in one of the worst decisions of my life, I decided to try professional golf. After three painful years traipsing round Europe, America and South Africa, plying the trade of a touring professional, with nothing but debts and a suntan to show for it, I re-entered the real world of business and bringing up my family.

Since the dark days of pro golf, my business ventures have ranged across property development, handcuff manufacture (don’t ask), spectacle manufacture, automobile sunroof manufacture and half a dozen other diverse commercial enterprises, some of which were more enterprising than commercial.

Nowadays writing occupies almost all my time, and I’m having the time of my life.

The Book of Origins, has now been sold into the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Portugal, Bulgaria, Greece and China.

I am married to Susan, and we have two sons, Max (32) and James (29), both of whom are now carving their own enterprises in the world.