Shaun was born in 1969, and he is a couple of months older than the Moon Landings (if they ever took place). Born in Lincolnshire, in the UK, and spending his early life living over a village pub which his family managed, he was raised in the small market town of Stamford, and attended Stamford School after passing the 11 plus exam. He was expelled from the school after three years, and finished his education at Fane Secondary Modern, a school which has subsequently been renamed a couple of times in various bids to improve a reputation that is seriously lacking.

Shaun began working at the age of 16, with his first real job being that of a window fabricator. He was injured in an industrial accident which these days would not be allowed to happen, and spent a couple of his teenage years on the dole, a proud holder of the UB-40 card used to sign-on with. He was retrained as an office worker, where he learnt to touch-type, and had a various number of office jobs before he joined the civil service in 1997. He worked at the Land Registry and the Department for Work and Pensions, and in between the two of those he worked for Her Majesty’s Prison Service as a prison officer on a lifer wing, where the days were surprisingly quiet and interesting. He had more in common with the prisoners than he did with most of his co-workers. After leaving the prison service, Shaun spent time working as a care worker for adults with learning disabilities, and spent some years working as a qualified counsellor. He took the decision to write full-time in 2015, which he was able to do alongside volunteering part-time as a counsellor.

Shaun has suffered with mental health issues throughout his life, but wasn’t diagnosed with any illnesses until 2015, when he had diagnoses of bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder. He writes about mental health issues in some of his transgressive novels.

Since his first novel, “die Stunde X”, published in 1995, Shaun has gone on to write 16 further novels, in the genres of alternative history, thriller, men’s fiction and transgressive fiction. Most of his novels are available to buy in paperback format on Amazon, and can be read on the Kindle.

Shaun lives in Peterborough with his wife and their large pack of small dogs.