John Mole

After University John Mole spent fifteen years criss-crossing Europe, the Middle East and Africa for an American Bank.

His fortieth birthday present to himself was to quit employment to write full time. Various entrepreneurial ventures include baked potato restaurants in Moscow, importing Russian biotechnology, and cleaning up water weed on Tanzania's Lake Victoria.

In Greece with his family he restored an old house on the island of Evia, which they go back to every year.

John's latest book is "Harley and the Holy Mountain: through the Heart of Greece to its Soul". It's about a road trip from the house on Evia on Harley, an antiquated 50cc Yamaha motorcycle, through mainland Greece to the independent monastic state of Mount Athos.

He loves to travel around the Mediterranean and the Middle East. When not at the laptop or on the road he sings and plays the baglama, a miniature bouzouki, with a Greek band in London.

www.johnmole.com