Allan Spencer

I was born in Blackpool, England and got a Bichemistry degree at Salford University. After travelling for 3 years I got a job in a research station before becoming a R&D Manager for a variety of pharmaceutical compnanies.

In Janaury 1999 my wife and I came out to Australia with a new R&D job becoming Australian Citizens 3 years later. We live in Melbourne's Eastern suburbs beneath the Dandenong hills.

At 18 in the holidays before starting university, I spent 31 wonderful days travelling on Interail all around Europe. I was hooked on travel. I could see all the places and peoples that my extensive reading of history and anthropolgy had told me about. It was also the heat, the adventure and whatever came my way.

So during the long University holidays I would work flat out for 4-8 weeks and then travelled for a similar length of time in search of adventure, living on not a lot to be able to travel further and longer. I travelled all over Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

Four years later I graduated and at dawn, the day after my graduation ceremony, I set out for Morocco and encountering the Spanish Saharan war moved into Algeria and across the Sahara to Tammerset.

I briefly returned to England to learn how to ride a morotbike and a few months later set off to India with my newly graduated mate, Dave on our motorbikes. This was also very exciting as the Shah of Iran started to totter on his peacock throne as we arrived in the country.

Since these 3 year long grand road trips and as month long holidays or with work, I have continued to travel exploring America both north and south, SE Asia and of course the whole of Australia where I now reside.

It all makes great material for action/adventure books set in wild and exotic parts of the world. This is especially as the travel includes all forms of transport particularly motorbikes and horseback and even camel.

My interests also help being, reading, ancient literature, history, anthropology plus fencing, shooting, horse riding and motorbikes. I must also include music as all my books were written to a rock soundtrack.

My series of books I have named the Saga of the Woden born. They all follow on in time but are each separate and complete stories in themselves.

also see http://www.wodenborn.com

By the way Woden is the old English chief god of wisdom and war, the Viking's Odin. Wednesday is Woden's day.

20.01.17 The Saga of the Woden born

Book Title Time Where set

Prequel Saharan sojourn (a prequel)1976 - 1977 Morocco & Algeria

Book 1 Into the unknown with eyes wide open 1977- 1978Baluchistan in Iran

Book 2 Into the semi known with one of the Vanir 1978 – 1979 Baluchistan in Pakistan and Iran

Book 3 Down south with the fire djinn 1979 Mexico

Book 4 To the other end of the earth rode the Aesir with his Vanir Princess 1979 – 1980 Gulf of Carpentaria Australia

Book 5 Bringing fire djinn light to the dark continent 1980 Chad

Book 6 Across silver & blood sprinkled sands to the city of the djinns 1981 Rajasthan in India

Book 7 Blood, oil and fire devils 1982 Congo

Book 8 Across the Llanos, thunder the Riders of the Vanir 1983 Venezuela

Book 9 Huo Yo Guai step across the Steppes to cut the silk road 1984 Xinjiang NW China

Book 10 Alice of Khartoum (the unexpected one) 1985 Sudan

Book 11 Into the land of the ice and snow 1986 Canada

Book 12 Amidst the archipelago of spice isles sail the Woden Born 1987 Indonesia

Book 13 Vanir versus voodoo villains, venue Haiti 1988 Haiti

Book 14 Assault on a salt caravan to Timbuktu 1989-1990 Mali

Book 15 Mayhem in the Makaran 1990 ONGOING Baluchistan in Pakistan

Book 16 Madagascar, marsupials, mutants and madness 1991 Madagascar

Book 17 Raiding the Stans 1992 Central Asia

Book 18 Warlords, pirates and privateers, 1993 Somali

Book 19 In search of the Daughter of Set, 1994 Central African Republic

Book 20 A Caribbean cordite calypso 1995 The Caribbean islands

Book 21 Brazil Border Bravos 1996 Brazil Ongoingi

Book 25 The Aesir rode to Ragnarok 2001 Baluchistan in Pakistan

Book 26 The Fire djinn rekindled 2023 ONGOING Baluchistan in Pakistan