Edward Laxton

On The Daily Express I was labelled a "conscientious hedonist" and for me that's what life is all about, fun and fulfilment. I thoroughly enjoyed my thirty years in Fleet Street, tracking down and talking to people who had absolutely no intention of answering my questions. We reporters won more battles than we lost, far more, way before mobile phones were invented and "hacking" belonged to folks who rode horses in their leisure. Not attracted to retirement, I have stayed with the writing, features, travelogues, publicity pieces, and more recently quite a few blogs. Three non-fiction books were published - "Busted" the true-life story of a under-cover hippie-detective; "Secret Sex Lives of the Rich and Famous" (under the pseudonym Andrea Love) and "The Famine Ships" the triumphs of starving Irish emigrants in the 1840s, and their passage to America. Now I am trying my hand at non-fiction. On Kindle is the e-book "Doyle's Orchard" set in Normandy where the son of a D-Day U.S. soldier saves the vintage Calvados. Next up "The Ladies League," just finishing this novel based on a true and hilarious story, plus a book of humorous and real-life short stories. With three grown children, Kevin, Karen and Andrew, I now live in South Oxfordshire, happily married to Michelle with Joshua and Amy and our dog Luna, short for luna-tic.