Patrick Ford

Patrick Ford has had an interesting and varied life. At eighteen, his ambition was to be a regular army officer, but his family circumstances prevented this. There was his widowed mother, two farms to run, and he was an only son. So, he studied agriculture.

He was disappointed but later he said in his laconic Australian way, ‘With my luck, I'd have probably been the first poor bastard shot in Vietnam’. He assuaged his ambition by becoming a part-time soldier in his University Regiment.

He has been a farmer, a farm consultant, a teacher and an accountant, but most of all, he is a son of the soil, with a deep attachment to the land where he grew up. Patrick loves history, particularly military history, and he has travelled extensively in North America, Europe. Malaysia, and the Pacific. His experiences have left him with a deep well of knowledge from which to draw as he writes his stories.

He credits his mother for his love of reading and writing. His dearest wish is to share his stories with as many people as possible, hoping that they will enjoy reading them as much as he has enjoyed writing them.

He harboured a story from his youth of lost love and decided he would write about it in a novel. It was the catalyst for a series of novels, now numbering sixteen plus a couple of volumes of short stories. He writes from his home in rural Queensland and produces what Aussies call ‘a bloody good yarn’.