Christopher Malden

About the author…

Christopher Malden worked as a technician at University of Oxford Department of Nuclear Physics and at Harwell’s National Institute for Research into Nuclear Science at a critical time for fundamental advances in this field. He later worked as a technical author and technical copywriter. At the beginning of a career in advertising he studied Psychology at University of London’s Department of Extra-Mural Studies and went on to work on consumer profiling for use in selecting candiates for public service positions. As a senior copywriter he produced advertising for a wide range of clients in many different London agencies before becoming a free-lance consultant writer. Having travelled widely in Europe, particularly Spain, the Baleares and France, has sailed as long-distance crew both the Atlantic (twice to the Caribbean, to Madeira, the Azores) and long-distance sailing along the length and breadth of the mediterranean, to Rhodes, Monarco, Palma, Nice, Barcelona, Marbella, Sicily, Gibraltar, Sardegna, he now lives with his wife mainly in the South of France, devoting himself to writing - both fact and fiction (...though not necessarily in the same book...).

He aslo paints and has sold works internationally. Returning to France from a brief sojourn in England (2 years) he concentrates now on philosophical works and 'serious' painting, hopefully soon to be on show in Galleries in Provence. An autobiography is also planned

He is married to the author Carolyn Leponteur (a.k.a. Zoe Tremaine) and enjoys the mutual benefit of a never-ending flow of original ideas, stimulating for both art and literature (not to mention lively discussion). Both he and his wife are trilingual (French, English and Spanish) having passed more than 35 years in the wider European culture. They have worked in the southern vineyards, absorbing the skills needed to distinguish between different vintages (the yearly variation wine due to weather) and the cepages (the careful slection of different combinations of grape varieties). Favourite for both is 'Cava' from San Sadurni de Noya, Cataluna.