Andrew Bradford

Andrew Bradford was born in Edmonton, North London in 1948. He is married, with two adult daughters and lives in Hertfordshire. Now semi-retired, his career was spent in information technology in the banking and investment industry, and he is the author of ‘The Investment Industry for IT Practitioners: an Introductory Guide’; one of the standard textbooks on how information technology is used in the banking and investment industry.

In 2011 he published "Live Eels and Grand Pianos", the story of his parents, Kathy and Charlie Bradford. Charlie and Kathy were seriously disabled by Polio when they were young children. Charlie contracted the disease in 1909, when he was three, and Kathy in 1913, when she was ten months old. “Live Eels and Grand Pianos” tells the story of their extraordinary courage in the face of adversity.

In 2012 he published "Dotty Dorothy: The Perfect Spy", the trie story of Dorothy O'Grady, the only woman to be sentenced to death for treason during World War II.