Eric Carroll left school at 14 and joined the RAF as a Boy Entrant, serving for fifteen years. Since then, he has been a professional chef, a college lecturer in Bermuda, poet and traveller, amateur photographer and muralist, a ranchero in Mexico, bartender, EFL teacher, and a VSO Volunteer in Egypt. Now in his robust Eighties and long retired, Eric is still occupied in creative writing and, as he puts it, remaining fit and healthy so as to sustain his literary work.