Landscape architect, property developer, and pastor, Henry’s career was diverse before cancer struck in 2006. “There’s nothing like an open coffin to make a man rethink his priorities.” On the day of his surgery, Henry started to write a novel for his sons, expressing the deep things that he might never get to show them. He did not know then that he would survive, or that from his hospital bed a new career had been born. He now works as an author, speaker, and recording artist, pursuing his love of history, philosophy, and the arts. Following the publication of his first novel, The Heretic, Henry is now researching a prequel called The Knight, set in the Renaissance courts of Italy.

 

Henry and his wife Ruth live deep among the mountains and lakes of northwest Cumbria, in a barn they rebuilt to contain their expanding family and goat herd. “Three feet thick walls are ideal when you have five lively children!” Their favourite hobbies include mountain expeditions, swimming in the lakes and rivers, films, reading copiously, and making an awful din with various musical instruments.

 

 

“A gentle man of God who has faced life’s great mountains.” – Bear Grylls