PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Stephen is a happily retired Police officer having served with Essex Police as a Constable for thirty years between 1983 and 2013\. He is married to Tanya who is also his best friend. Both his sons, Luke and Ross, were members of the armed forces, collectively serving five tours of Afghanistan between 2008 and 2013\. Both were injured on their first tour. This led to his first book; 'Two Sons in a Warzone - Afghanistan: The True Story of a Fathers Conflict', which was published in October 2010. His teenage daughter, Aimee, currently attends one of the Districts Secondary schools. Both of his grandfathers served in and survived the First World War, one with the Royal Irish Rifles, the other in the Mercantile Navy, whilst his father was a member of the Royal Army Ordinance Corp during the Second World War. Stephen corroborated with one of his writing partners, Ken Porter, on a previous book published in August 2012, 'German POW Camp 266 - Langdon Hills,' which spent six weeks as the number one best-selling book in Waterstones, Basildon between March and April 2013\. Steve and Ken collaborated on a further four books in the Towns & Cities in the Great War series by Pen and Sword. Stephen has also written other titles for the same series of books. Stephen has also co-written three crime thrillers which were published between 2010 and 2012, and centre round a fictional Detective, named Terry Danvers. When he is not writing, Tanya and he enjoy the simplicity of walking their four German Shepherd dogs early each morning when most sensible people are still fast asleep in their beds.
