Simon Phelps

Simon Phelps is new to fiction writing following his very varied life so far. As a teenager he broke his back in a work accident and since then has lived in a wheelchair. Later he co-founded a farming based commune, then worked on a City Farm, and ran a market stall before living on a smallholding rearing goats, pigs, poultry and vegetables. He studied the Public Understanding of Science and then took a Master's degree in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology with London University and the Wellcome Institute as a mature student. Since then he has practiced as a trained counsellor for a number of years helping people learn how to help themselves through facing their painful life events. His own personal journey has been very turbulent at times and has had to be faced head-on to gain the insights and skill he now possesses.

This diverse background informs his writing which, so far, is focused on a series of novels aimed at exploring the events of the second half of the 11th Century in British history, each side of the Norman Conquest. The first of which is the novel 'No Man's Son'. The second, 'Blood on the Water' is to be published imminently. He has had a lifelong love of history and literature initiated by reading historical novels as a small boy. He hopes to stimulate that interest in his readers through entertaining stories, interesting characters and thorough historical research.