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Welcome to my website.

Here you can find out about my first novel, The Best of Men (2009) and read an excerpt from it, as well as learn about developments on the sequel that I have just started writing.

You can also read a bit about me and any literary events that I may be involved in, and how to contact me if you are interested.

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I was born in Oxford and grew up in the neighbouring countryside, where a great deal of action took place during the English Civil War.

I visited many of the famous battlefields, all of which made a profound impression on me. My father was from Spain, so my hero Laurence Beaumont and I share a common heritage.

The germ of The Best of Men was sown early: when in my teens, I wrote a novel set during the Civil War period and I still have those pages preserved, in tiny handwriting, perhaps inspired by the Brontë children's tales of Angria.
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Canadian Paperback
12 May 2010



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Canadian Edition
12 May 2009



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UK Edition
2 July 2009





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10 April 2011


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