Yesteryear
Born in Britain's industrial belt, Brian was reared under the British education system as factory fodder but bolted for Australia immediately after coming of age.  Struggling to discard the impediments of his upbringing, he benefited from a Graduate education at  Curtin University, which he augmented with a Masters degree at the University of Western Australia.. 

His passion for books began in his teens after reading Hemingway's, "The Old Man and the Sea". His love of writing was inspired by James Joyce's "Ulysses". The BBC aired his first short story, "The Pilgrimage" in 1997. A short fiction, it was read by the late Dorothy Tutin, one of the most accomplished and intelligent leading ladies of the post-war British stage. Subsequent shifting genre from fiction, he worked for some years as a photo-journalist.

 Today
After re-reading "The Passing of the Aborigines" by Daisy Bates, her plethora of articles, ethnological research and her biographies, he determined to undo her tangle of myths in an attempt to understand the woman who hid behind her words. After an obsession of research this culminated in Queen of Deception.

Tomorrow
During research the writer is forced to abandon the many  fascinating sidetracks discovered along the way. With Queen of Deception complete he revisited some of those paths in search of inspiration for his next work. Having found a suitably intersting subject he has now commenced his second work which is set in the same time period.