Born in 1936 to Jewish parents, I grew up in a non-Jewish area of Essex.

After seven years at Palmer’s School, where I learned to ignore the antisemitic taunts of the school bully, I completed two years National Service (RAF). This was followed by a career in sales, marketing and general management, at first in UK and later world-wide.

In 1995, I retired to Bournemouth with my wife Suzi to enjoy golf, music, and writing. At first I wrote short stories, memoirs and poetry; then, as my confidence grew, a full length novel. The result was ‘The Supervisor’, published when I was eighty!

On re-reading the book, I realised there was much unsaid about its characters, and so began ‘The Stoker Trilogy’’. The work tells of two generations of the Stoker family and all associated with them. A vivid picture is painted of life in London and of the battles of both wars of the first half of the twentieth century.

In February 2023, my beloved Suzi died, just as the final book was completed. She never read that book, but her last words to me were “You must go on writing.”

With Suzi’s passing, Bournemouth rather lost its charm for me, so I have downsized into a flat further up the river Avon, in Wiltshire. No longer fit for golf, I play snooker. I watch sport on TV and I read a lot. I miss Suzi terribly, but am trying to do as she said. I am currently writing my memoirs. I think that would have pleased her.

The picture on the right was taken when I was invited to read, at the West Cork Literary Festival in 2017, an extract from a short memoir about a visit to Auschwitz .