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Hello, and thank you for visiting my website. I hope you will find something here to\u00a0 enjoy reading. Born to Polish and Irish immigrant parents who settled in west Yorkshire in the late 1940s, I like to joke that I am \u2018Poirish\u2019. I now live in the beautiful, historic city of York in the North of England, and I am immensely proud of my heritage, family and parents.<\/span><\/p>\n As a social science graduate, I worked in local government\u2019s Human Resources, in the south and north of England, before my retirement. Human Resources always sounded a bit dodgy to me \u2013 shades of Soylent Green \u2013 but working with people, their stories and daily dilemmas was fascinating and hugely varied.<\/span><\/p>\n I have loved writing all my adult life. In my working years, I shied away from sharing or considering publication. Then after studying creative writing with York University\u2019s Lifelong Learning programme at post-graduate level, my short story, The Baba Yaga Tree<\/em>, was published in the University\u2019s Students Literature Anthology of 2016. Another of my stories, Good Friday<\/em>, was recently published by Lendal Press in Something Brewing, an anthology of York\u2019s Pen to Paper writers\u2019 group.<\/span><\/p>\n I have just completed my first novel, Northern Pole<\/strong>, <\/em>which has now been re-launched with a new title ‘The Suitcase of Secrets<\/strong>‘<\/em>, set in 1940s Poland and England and loosely based on real events. After WW2, Roman a Polish refugee arrives in England to start a new life but his past threatens to derail his efforts.<\/span><\/p>\n The Suitcase of Secrets is available from Stairwell Books in paperback. (https:\/\/www.stairwellbooks.co.uk<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n