John Williams

Born in Lower Walton, Warrington in 1963, I attended St Thomas’ School in Stockton Heath and then Botelor Grammar School.

I left to go to University in 1981and graduated as a teacher of history. This job first took me to Rochdale, then Kuwait and for 15 years in and around London.

Since retiring I have been able to concentrate on researching and writing about local history.

When I was a young student teacher in the early 1980s, I had spent time coaching at a summer school in Norfolk. I was both awed and inspired by the beauty of the location, and it became the inspiration for a story it took forty years to finally tell. My "A Forbidden Love" series of romantic gay historical fiction novels tells those stories.