John Barrow

John Barrow is a retired public health and airline food safety consultant who now lives in the English Lake District. He lectured in Zambia for ten years, was Assistant Chief Delegate in Uganda with the International Red Cross on the East African Relief operation and spent ten years travelling the world with British Airways, auditing down-route flight kitchens and crew hotels. His subsequent food safety consulting business enjoyed partnerships in Germany, Kenya and Singapore. He has always loved to write and, prior to his retirement, had published four books on food safety and edited two professional journals. Since retirement, he has ventured into fiction. His first novella was a cathartic short story "A Convenient Case of Mistaken Identity". This was followed by the "Orson and Maisie" series for young children, then "Mum, We've Lost The Chameleons". He has now turned his hand to more mature fiction and is writing a series of romances set in the fictional Brundle Cove and based on Norse and Hebridean legends of the Selkies. Among his hobbies, apart from writing, he lists fishing, photography, Indian food, and model building. He is also researching his family history and says that he may fictionalise some of the more interesting events he has discovered.. The rock in his life is his wife, Shahida, herself an accomplished artist, and they enjoy travelling together.