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In my former life I was an actuary with three decades of global management experience, every year serving as fertile writing fodder. My first two books—Deadly Investment and Deadly Day Trading—in a crime fiction series feature on this website (keep an eye out for Gentle & Tusk #3!). Both a mystery novelist and an energy technology history writer, my current project is a global history of nuclear power reactors, the first volume of which will be published in late 2026.

Take a look at my online newsletter/blog publications including Ten out of Ten, a capacious review newsletter covering books and movies/series. A newer adventure, curating reading and viewing choices for your delectation, is On Screen On Page. The newsletter for my history trilogy is Nuclear Power History. My candid, friendly author newsletter, Author/Historian at Work, centered on daily work and life in the Anthropocene, is worth subscribing to.

Writing provides much of the meaning in my life but I chase a number of dreams. I am an ardent reader in a wide variety of book genres. I thrill to modern film. My wife and I hike often, our adventures ranging from day walks, through pub-to-pub multiday rambles, to camping and hefting backpacks into remote territory. We’re ardent birdwatchers; like Jonathan Franzen, I use birding as my conduit to nature. Grandparenting nine livewires aged eight and under is a constant joy. An activist in several periods of my life, I’ve been an Extinction Rebellion arrestee in support of my current preoccupation: the climate crisis. Philosophically, I am a rational humanist. I jog.

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