Stewart Dalby is a publisher, editor, journalist and writer but not necessarily in that order. As a journalist he has been a news editor, foreign correspondent and travel writer for The Financial Times. He was a war correspondent for The Observer and various American publications and broadcasters. He has written about Ireland for The Spectator, The New Statesman, and The Economist and about collecting and alternative investments for The Guardian. He is part owner of an Internet business and editorial director of a group of e-newspapers specializing in natural resources, has traveled and worked in almost 100 countries and contributed to anthologies of travel writing. He has also briefly been a fishing charter boat skipper in Ireland, a stockbroker in Hong Kong and an investment analyst in Brighton. Married with three daughters, he divides his time between much loved homes in London and Sussex between the South Downs and the Sea. This is his first novel.