Colin was born in the south of England in 1954, the youngest of four, they lived with his grandparents until he turned six when his mother remarried. The family migrated to Australia in 1967 and settled in Adelaide.
At the age of fifteen, he joined the Royal Australian Navy and served twenty years as a weapons technician before retiring to settle in Queensland.
Married in 1977 and with two children, seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, he lives with his wife, Lesley, just outside of Brisbane.
This is his first published work.
The Kurils, the border islands in the north of Japan, have been in dispute for many centuries. Taken as reprisals by Russia at the end of World War 2, they were eventually returned in the year 2056 in exchange for favourable trade deals across the Northern Pacific region. Just over a century later,...
