Chris Heal Author

Chris Heal received his PhD from Bristol University, aged sixty-five. His varied career began with a window cleaning round to support himself at grammar school, digging ditches for Britain’s new motorways, hitch-hiking to India, training as an airline pilot, and working for many years as a journalist and as a scuba instructor. He joined a large American firm and spent five years in Africa. In the UK, he led a multi-million-pound buy-out of a corporate department. He was appointed chairman of a regional theatre, worked as an oak furniture maker, and funded and advised internet start-ups and small businesses. Retired for the fifth time, he now lives in Hampshire.