in 2008 he released his debut novel, 'They Grow Upon The Eyes'. The sequel, 2011's "The Doom of the Hollow', followed to critical acclaim with 'The Unforeseen Children of Olive Shipley' completing the trilogy in 2013.

Two ghost story shorts, 'Goet' and 'The Devil's Composer', were released in 2014 and he contributed music reviews, articles, features and interviews for a couple of online music magazines.

After attending the MET Film School in London in 2015 to learn more about screenplays, he returned to story writing with 2017's novella, 'The Shimmer at Fog Cottage' and followed it up with 2018's The Devil's Accompanist which was the full length follow up to 2014’s The Devil’s Composer. After taking a break to focus on music, he returns to prose with his latest book 'The Montgomery Canal Murder' being released on February 11th 2022.

He lives in the north of England with his Greyhound, Marley.