Biography

Bryan wrote his first novel, Shaking Hands With The Devil in the late 1980’s, but when he and his agent failed to get it published, he decided that he was a failed writer and should go on and fail at something else instead. However, whenever he read the manuscript he was surprised to find that he still found it funny and eventually redrafted it. It was published 30 years after the first redraft.  luding firmly placing the action in the late ʼ80s and early ʼ90s for today’s reader.

He has worked as a brush salesman and rent collector, made sound effects for BBC Radio and been a Tax Investigator and an occasional actor. He also writes regular theatre reviews for StageTalk and Bristol 24/7 magazine. He is a member of the Crime Writers Association. 

An Old Tin Can is the first in a new black comedy crime series set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. Future titles are Dead On and Never A Happy Ending. The recurrent themes are identity, murder and … biscuits. 

He lives in Bristol with his wife and has two children in their twenties. He likes nothing more than hanging around in a graveyard, which he thinks might come in handy one day.