Chris lives in Leicester, England where his parents moved to at Christmas 1964. He works full time as a chef in the care industry. He had a diagnosis of asthma before his second birthday and as result, he struggled with physical activities and sport as a boy. As a teenager Chris became interested in science fiction after reading Asimov’s ‘The End Of Eternity’. He soon sought out other such authors such as Frank Herbert, Tolkien, Anne McCaffrey and so on.

Chris began collecting vinyl records in the 1970’s, avidly listening to a diverse, eclectic mix of music styles including blues, folk, progressive and hard rock, punk, classical and electronica. His love of the outdoors really began after a trip to the Lake District of north-west England after which he a seriously active hill-walker. He currently visits Scotland several times a year, concentrating on climbing Corbetts. These are mountains between 2500 and 3000 feet. Chris ‘compleated’ the Munros (mountains over 3000 feet), simultaneously with his brother Tony, in 2008 and is a member of the Munro Society.

Scotland has a very long and ancient history that is evidenced in the landscape in the form of shiels, standing stones, crannogs, brochs etc’. The history written in the landscape sparked his imagination. Even experts know little about these sites or the culture of these ancient denizens. Asking himself simple questions such as ‘how did these people live?’, or ‘what did they eat?’ started Chris on his journey to write his first book ‘The Mucker Revolt’, planned as a series of three books he called the ‘Aneksaria’, or ‘free people’. His thought was to make it interesting. Whilst working, sometimes, in excess of 300 hours in a month, he steadily built his ideas. More recently, he has been creating videos of his activities, mostly in Scotland. Using his own photographs, he creates a video stream of images and then sets them to a music background, composing and producing the music himself. These videos are on Facebook (checkout Chris’s Facebook page), achieving around 1000 views per video.

Chris still works as a full-time chef in the Care Industry. He has a busy life.