David O'Neil is an Artist and Photographer who started writing seriously with a series of Highland guide books. His boyhood ambitions were to fly an aeroplane, and sail a boat. As a boy his family were bombed out of their home in London. He learned to fly with the RAF 1950-52 during National Service and started sailing boats while serving in the Colonial Police, in Nyasaland (Malawi). He spent 8 years there, before returning to UK. Since then he has lived in southern England where he became a management consultant, for over twenty years. He returned to live in Scotland in 1980, and became a tour guide in 1986. He started writing in 2006, the first guide book being published in 2007. A further two have been published since then. He started writing fiction in 2007.