Dr James McGrath qualified as an accountant and has worked in industry, local government, management consultancy and higher education as an accountant, financial controller, senior manager and MA course director. He has co-authored five non-fiction books and written three others. His most recent non-fiction book The Little Book of Big Management Wisdom was published in November 2016. Jim published his first novel, A Death in Winter: 1963, in January 2016 and followed this in December with A Death in Spring: 1968.

Jim now writes full time and, despite many years of disappointment, continues to support his beloved West Bromwich Albion.

Dr Bob Bates was a Senior Executive in the Civil Service for nearly 20 years and in 1994 he launched the Arundel Group, a management development and training company. He has a degree in Computer Studies, Masters degrees in Education and Management and a PhD in Management in the Health Sector. He is also an NLP Master Practitioner and a Fellow of the Institute for Learning. Bob is the author of the Little Book of Big Coaching Models. He has also written Learning Theories Simplified and A Quick Guide to Special Needs and Disabilities (both published by SAGE).

Bob now combines writing with working voluntary for a charity that promotes education and health in a village in The Gambia and on EU projects working with children in France, Romania and Turkey who, for various reasons, are failing to engage in education.