I am a Scottish 60-year-old IT Support Manager based currently in Findhorn on the Moray Firth. My wife and I travelled a lot in our twenties and thirties, and the wanderlust seems be rearing its head again. Who knows where next.

This is my debut novel, and I would love to sail off into the sunset writing for fun.

I consider myself from Ayr, where my formative years were spent. In fact, I grew up just a few hundred yards from the Alloway birthplace of Robert Burns, our greatest bard.

Maybe there was something in the water.

I often wrote daft poetry in the style of Burns every January 25th for Burns’ night, the second most important evening in the Scottish calendar!

I also played around with the guitar for years at one time having the ambition to start a band. This never really happened, though I wrote a few songs.

As an Honest Man, I also support Ayr United!

Old Ayr, which never a town surpasses,

For honest men and bonny lasses.