MichaelBartlett has been a regular writer for hit programmes for radio and television,and he has also written numerous original plays which have been staged forradio, TV and theatre across the UK. He lives with his wife in Norfolk. He is theauthor of short story collections My Village in the Valley (2021), PersonalIslands (2021), A Different Drum (Austin Macauley, 2024), and novels Dreams of Eleven(2022) and Hunting the Hornets (2023). He returns to the comedy oflife in a quiet backwater with short story sequel Return to My Village inthe Valley.