John Caine

John Caine, an award winning author and playwright was born in Salford, Lancashire and educated at Salford Grammar School. Following National Service in the army in Malaya, John returned to the north of England and joined Granada Television in Manchester as a newscaster and presenter, then as a writer on programmes including Scene at Six Thirty.

John's first - and so far only - novel, A Nest of Singing Birds, was awarded the Lichfield Prize, and in between writing for the theatre and television, he is working on his second novel - so far without a title. His play for radio,'On The Knocker' won an LBC Radio Drama Award.

His plays for the stage include Mister Lowry, based on the life and work of the famous Northern artist L.S.Lowry, and premiered at Bristol Old Vic, and his latest play Reunion, which explores the emotional, moral and physical questions posed by 'assisted suicide'.

John is presently writing a screenplay with the working title 25 Miles.

He has not forgottren his early days as a television newscaster, and still writes as a freelance journalist for a number of UK newspapers, and broadcasts on CBC Radio Canada as a London commentator.