About ME

David Rashleigh

David Rashleigh, author and engineer, first visited Lancashire in 1985, intending to stay just one week. He is still there.

WHO I AM

Background

David Rashleigh was born in Bedford, England, a descendent of a branch of the Rashleigh family that still inhabits Menabilly, near Fowey in Cornwall.

Aged 13, he won a scholarship to be educated at Bedford School. Following spectacularly bad A-level results, he spent a year travelling the world with the merchant navy, during which time he saw an awful lot of water.

This was followed by a career in the RAF, best described as "inglorious and short". Eventually, he found his niche as a railway signalling engineer, at which he has enjoyed significantly greater success.

As an author

His career as an author is entirely accidental.

An interest in history and especially how it surrounds us every day led to the idea for Sciron: writing the book was greatly helped by having a separate study and a deep dislike of soap operas and "reality" television.

The dramatis personae in Sciron are not based on any real people, although David could not resist inflicting some facets of his own personality on more than one of the characters. Naturally, he will not own up to which people who he has blessed in this manner.

Away from work

Besides history, David's interests include aviation (he holds a rarely-used private pilot's licence) and target shooting; the latter largely to impress his daughter's boyfriends with his easy-going but protective nature.

Prospective readers should be aware that Sciron is in no way a funny book. Apart from the bit where... ...but that would be telling.

THINGS OF INTEREST

  1. Sciron at Amazon
  2. My New Book
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  1. Buy 'Sciron' at Amazon

    Sciron is currently available as an e-book on Amazon. You can jump right on over there this instant, read a few chapters of the book and then buy the rest.

    All for the less than the price of a typical Sunday newspaper and a darn sight more fun to read.

    Go on, you're tempted and there's no harm in having a peek.

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  2. My next book...

    "Don and Frank almost certainly never met, although they did live in the same part of Bedfordshire during their formative years. They came from very different backgrounds and led very different lives. I knew one of them well, but never met the other; one has greatly assisted me by writing his memoirs while I have relied on the memories of the other’s aging siblings for an insight into his character.

    They belonged to a generation that is gradually fading before us: born after the carnage of Flanders and destined to play dissimilar parts in the conflict that was to engulf the world as they reached manhood. One lived to tell his tale, and to the end of his life was immensely proud of his part in the Allies’ triumph. The other made the ultimate sacrifice, his short life ending in a watery grave in the Aegean Sea.

    Who were they? Despite being strangers, their stories intertwined just long enough to create one unique result: me. They were my grandfathers."

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Email: david@davidrashleigh.com