Berwick Coates was educated at Kingston Grammar School, and read History at Christ`s College, Cambridge.  Since then he has been, at various  times, an Army officer, careers adviser, writer, artist, lecturer, games coach, and teacher of History, English, Latin, General Studies, and Swahili.  He has published ten works of non-fiction, and two historical novels with Simon and Schuster –  The Last Conquest  (2013) and The Last Viking  (2014).’