Richard Palmer

Richard Palmer was born in Stafford U.K on 6th, May, 1944. The second eldest of four brothers he lived in Melling, Lancashire, a rural village a mile from Aintree Racecourse, Merseyside, until aged eighteen. He was educated at Maghull Secondary Modern school and Bootle Municipal Technical College, Merseyside.

He served for eleven years in the Police force and many years in the motor trade, His writing capabilities began at an early age with short stories, poems and newspaper articles.

After the death of his wife Barbara, aged forty six in 1991, he became a member of Liverpool Writers Group and produced a collection of poems. Years later Rich and his wife Linda ran 'Firkin House', their B & B in Hoylake, Wirral, U.K, before retiring to Cyprus in 2012. There he is secretary of Paphos Writers Group and ex Co Editor of 'The Main Sheet' newsletter at Paphos International Sailing School. A keen musician, he has written a couple of songs and plays the mouth organ, guitar and piano having studied music for four years.

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