H A Culley

H A Culley served as an Army officer for twenty-four years during which time he had a variety of unusual jobs. He spent his twenty-first birthday in the jungles of Borneo, commanded an Arab infantry unit in the Gulf for three years, and was the military attaché in Beirut during the aftermath of the Lebanese Civil War.

After leaving the Army he spent twenty-one years in the education sector. He has served on the board of two commercial companies and has been a trustee of several national and local charities. His last job before retiring was as the finance director and company secretary of the Institute of Development Professionals in Education. Since retirement, he has been involved in several historical projects and gives talks on historical subjects. He started writing historical fiction in 2013.

For many years he and his wife lived between Holy Island and Berwick upon Tweed in northern Northumberland, the setting for many of his historical novels, but moved to Oxfordshire in 2020 to be nearer his children and grandchildren.