Newman

Roger Taylor was born in Heywood, Lancashire, England and now lives in the Wirral. He is a chartered civil and structural engineer, a pistol, rifle and shotgun shooter, an instructor/student in a highly personalised form of aikido (heavily influenced by tai chi and systema) and, not least, an enthusiastic and loud but bone-jarringly inaccurate piano player.

Ostensibly fantasy, his major work -- the twelve books of the ‘Chronicles of Hawklan’ -- is much more than it seems and has been called ‘subtly subversive’. He has also written Aikido – More Than a Martial Art, the fantasy novel The Keep, Newman which he describes as ‘odd’, and Travellers which is science fiction.