Mike lives in Petersfield, Hampshire, with his wife and four kids. His interest in British history is lifelong, and childhood holidays were spent visiting castles and battlefields. He became a Sharpe junkie at the age of 13, and his fascination with the seventeenth century was piqued partly by the fact that his hometown is steeped in the history of the period. That interest spawned what became the critically acclaimed series, The Civil War Chronicles (John Murray/Hodder) one of which, Devil’s Charge, was chosen as a book of the year by the Sunday Times. He has also produced Highwayman for Endeavour Press/Sharpe Books, a trilogy of novellas set during the time when England was a republic.

Mike’s latest novel, The Savage Isle, is set during the Roman invasion of Britannia.