Martin White

Martin was born in Gloucestershire in 1953, attended schools in Stroud and Gloucester and later Pembroke and Wolfson Colleges, Cambridge. He obtained an MA in History, but then pursued a legal career, becoming a partner in a leading solicitors' firm. Since turning to writing, he has published two historical novels: "To Catch the Conscience of the King" (about Edward II's fall from power) and "Life Unfinished" (about the life of the composer, Franz Schubert), and most recently a memoir about his early childhood in Gloucestershire ("The Cotswold Boy"). He currently lives part time in Sutton Coldfield, and part time in County Cork in the Republic of Ireland.