Keith Lawson

Keith Lawson (born 1950 in Oxford) was Trackside Photographer for the local Speedway team - known as Oxford Rebels (1972-1975) then as Oxford Cheetahs (revising a previous nickname).

He previously wrote Guides to NVQs in Management while working in education but, since retiring, he looked back at his collection of photos and decided to create retrospective yearbooks of speedway. His photographs of speedway in the 70s are much used across social media and picked up by the press on occasions when a story of a rider is in the news. He is a contributor to Wikipedia on biographies.

Loves historical fiction (Hilary Mantel, S.J. Parris, Bernard Cornwell, Harry Sidebottom, C.J. Sansom) as well as non-fiction (Tom Holland, Mary Beard, Richard Dawkins) and would love to collaborate as photographer on sites such as Pompeii.

Favourite modern crime writers are Adrian McKinty, Steve Cavanagh, Don Winslow, Lou Berney, Dennis Lehane, Val McDermid and Jo Nesbo.

Writing his first fiction, with e-novella "Cat-As In Burglar" and has "The Bootlegger" in development - a tale of America's Prohibition era and gangsters.