George Macpherson

Award-winning writer and journalist George Macpherson was educated at St Paul's School, London, UK, and Seale Hayne Agricultural College (now Plymouth University, Devon). After several years working in rural development in Tanzania, Malawi and Botswana he joined the United Nations' International Labour Organisation as a Technical Advisor to the Government of Tanzania before returning to Britain, where he began learning his trade as a journalist and writer.

He later took up a post with BBC World Service as a producer, then Programme Organiser for the Swahili Service. He presented and produced music, medical, farming and wildlife programmes for BBC Five Live and BBC Radio Four before moving in 2006, with his wife Jane, to France to write novels. They moved back to UK after eight happy years, to live on Exmoor, on the Somerset border with Devon in South West England.

Between them, Jane (a graduate in English and Drama)and George had eight children - now spread around Europe and Scandinavia. In their spare time they are heavily into classical music - singing in local choirs, while George learns the cello. He plays flute and piano 'as required' in the picture-book town of Dulverton. He is currently Consultant Editor to Appropriate Technology Magazine.

George speaks several African languages including Swahili, Chewa, Tswana and a little Sukuma, which he learned from his Tanzanian first wife, mother of his four children.

George's is writing more novels to add to those already on sale in Amazon Kindle Store. His non-fiction books are also to be found from time to time, on Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com.