Matt Wingett

Matt Wingett is a writer, songwriter, playwright and public speaker. A former scriptwriter on ITV’s police show The Bill, he has written short stories, articles for the national press and also works as an advertising copywriter.

Matt has a lively interest in Portsmouth and has published classic histories of the city and literary works associated with it.

His interest in former Portsmouth citizen, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle led him to write Conan Doyle and the Mysterious World of Light, 1887-1920, an acount of the famous author’s faith in Spiritualism, which was shaped by his life in Southsea.

His desire to set stories in Britain’s only island city - which he considers the perfect setting for fiction - has driven much of his writing, including his novel, The Snow Witch.