I started writing fiction in my mid-twenties. I was working as an advertising copywriter and writing short stories and a novel in my spare time.  A success in the Time Out short story competition gave me the confidence to keep going with the fiction. I had several stories published in magazines including The New Statesman, Paris Review, and broadcast on BBC Radio's Short Story. My first novel was published in 1996 by Harper Collins as The Testimony Of Taliesin Jones. It won three prizes including the 1997 Somerset Maugham Award and, a couple of years later, was made into a film starring Jonathan Pryce. I wrote a second novel,  Jesus And The Adman, published in 1999, and had thoughts of giving up the day job to write novels and screenplays full time. In 2004 I was commissioned to write a drama - Mr Harvey Lights A Candle - for BBC Television. It was broadcast in 2005 and starred Timothy Spall.  I wrote for Silent Witness for two seasons before I was asked to write a book about the HIV/Aids pandemic for the Salvation Army. I made a 9-month journey, with my wife and two children, to Africa, India and China.  I did broadcasts for the BBC World Service and Radio 4's Thought For The Day -  to which I became a contributor in 2000. The book describing that journey - More Than Eyes Can See - was published in 2007. I returned to scripts,  writing a docudrama Atlantis for BBC1 in 2008.  I then wrote a feature - Africa United - for Pathe’ that was released 2010. In 2011, Scott Free commissioned me to write a film script inspired by my grandfather's experiences in postwar Germany. I wrote the novel of the same story and The Aftermath was published in the UK by Penguin in 2013. It has been translated into 25 languages. The film based on the novel and starring Keira Knightley was released 2019. My latest novel - The Killing of Butterfly Joe - inspired by my time selling butterflies in glass cases in the US was published March 2018 by Picador. It is currently being adapted for feature film by Popcorn. A collection of my Thought For The Days from the last 20 years, entitled Godbothering, was published in 2020. 2025 will see the publication of Notes on an Execution, a book for Holy Week. I am now writing a novel inspired by the year I spent living in Jerusalem.