Roger Coghill

School: City of London at Blackfriars. After leaving Emmanuel College, Cambridge University with an Hons degree in Biology (though I was an Open Scholar in Classics for Part One), I went into the City and worked as a stockbroking analyst for some years then into Merchant banking. In 1968 I formed my own company publishing Extracts on private companies and potted surveys of industries called Keynotes (still going!). After that I formed a French camping holiday called Keycamps (still going!) but sold it after five years. Next, with friends, I started Atlantis Video Productions based at Wapping (not still going). Also I bought and renovated a moated chateau on the Loire with a friend and did it up and sold it (a wonderful two and a half years!) The chateau is also still going (it was built in the 14th century). in 2016 I retired to Madeira,where I now live in sundrenched splendour or squalour.

My two current projects are in building a butterfly house and making a movie on wild Madeira. But most of the last 20 years have been in research into electromagnetic field impacts on life, for which I guess I am best known, hence the book list.

Married twice, with a total of five kids, four of whom are grown up and one sadly died. Nevertheless I have at least four grandchildren, but am losing count, and in any case never see them.

For nearly thirty years I lived in an old stone cottage in the Welsh valleys, but having reached the ripe old age of 79 I plan to see the rest of my life by the seaside in Madeira. If you need more, read my autobiography on Kindle!