I guess you could say languages are my life. I was born and raised in the UK, followed my heart to Germany at the age of 25, lived in Ulm and Stuttgart, and have long since settled among the orchards and vineyards of the Rems valley. I read Modern Languages at Oxford, worked in marketing for a group of English language schools in the UK, taught English as a foreign language in Germany, and was then Head of Language Services for Germany's first translators' cooperative. Since 1991, my wife and I have been running our own translation business. At some point, the writer in me wanted to move into the front line: instead of recreating someone else's script in another language, I was eager to craft and refine tales of my own. The outcome is the burgeoning series of George's adventures, beginning with George and the Golden Letterseed, followed by George and the Poison Arrow and with George and the Magician's Maze currently taking shape. And coming full circle, as an author I have made languages a key theme of my stories.