Graham Houghton was born in Liverpool, UK and spent a fortunate childhood growing up wild and free on the fringe of the Lake District. Badly educated at a minor English public school which was staffed largely by emotional refugees from WW II, he then made the mistake of starting his working life in the military. After receiving a right bollocking from his CO for defending himself against a sexual assault by a more senior officer cadet at RMA Sandhurst, he left for the love of a girl - thank you JP. Thank you also for running off with that dickhhead who sold toilets to local councils, thus leaving him free to meet the woman he's now been married to for 44 years. After a string of more or less, mostly less interesting jobs, he eventually fell into bed with archaeology and has never left it. And along the way he has written - technical reports, 38 children's books some of which are available secondhand on Amazon, newspaper and magazine articles, an award-winning (Los Angeles, 2010) screenplay 'Cry of the Dreamer', which NEEDS REPRESENTATION, and the ebook 'Boracic Lint', a darkly comic tale in which Father Christmas turns to drink. Mountains and lakes, exploring, theatre, literature, good food and wine, these are all things that amuse him. But his greatest achievement is being one half of a partnership that has produced three of the finest people you could hope to meet - thank you Julia. He now lives in Australia and wonders... why?