David Robertson

David is a retired Church of England vicar. After 42 years of varied ministry he now lives in Cambridgeshire, England, where he pursues a variety of interests - from woodworking to horology. David married in 1981 and has four children. After the unexpected breakup of his marriage in early 1999, he became a lone parent for five years before meeting and marrying Gill.

He writes Christian non-fiction and fantasy under his own name, relationship fiction under the name of Riach Wilson, and comic fiction under the name, JB Duncan. In his non-fiction he draws on a deep understanding of scripture combined with a down-to-earth approach to life; in his fiction he shows an empathy with his characters borne out of decades of pastoral experience; and in all his writing he approaches both the serious, and the humorous, from a perspective of life-long faith.

David was born in Edinburgh in 1954, but grew up in and around London. At the age of eighteen he became a volunteer worker for CMS (Church Missionary Society) in Kenya before studying Biblical Studies with Greek and Hebrew at Sheffield University. As a graduate, he worked in the service industry before training for ordination at Ridley Hall, Cambridge. Ordained in 1979, David served in the diocese's of Bristol (Downend and Yate), Oxford (Booker, High Wycombe), Wakefield (Ovenden, Halifax), and Leeds (South Ossett). He has also been a Rural Dean, a Proctor on General Synod and served on a plethora of diocesan councils and committees. Now, as a retired clergyman, he seeks to be used and useful in the parish where he lives.