Conor Corderoy

THE WRITER PROFESSOR JAMES LOVELOCK DESCRIBED AS COMPULSIVE AND BELIEVABLE

Conor Corderoy was born in London, but his parents, whom he describes as 'bohemians', moved to Ibiza when he was two. He grew up on the smallest of the Balearic Islands, bare-foot, wild and uncombed. He did not attend school, but for four years had a governess. She rapidly became an alcoholic and disappeared one day when Corderoy was 12.

In his teens he moved with his family to Cordoba, on the Spanish mainland where at 16 he got his first job, breaking in wild horses. At 19, still bare-foot, wild and uncombed, he moved to London, via Barcelona and Paris, to become a rock star. He is grateful to whatever gods watch over him for foiling that project. He retains a fond nostalgia for Led Zeppelin and the Eagles, but his tastes these days run to cool jazz and Tudor music.

He flirted with academia in his 30s and became an Incorporated Linguist, a Barrister at the Inner Temple, a psychologist and a Master Practitioner of neuro-linguistic programming.

He has been married twice and has two daughters.

He thinks he might live in the south of Spain, but he isn't sure.