Leigh Barker

I write about heroes... so am I a hero? I would be if I had to be... honest! I once saved a cat from a tree - okay, it was a small tree, an apple tree in fact, but everyone knows size doesn't matter.

I've been a merchant seaman, and a salesman (I was hopeless), but mostly I've been a Business Analyst (but that doesn't make me a bad person).

Being a sparks (that's what they call Radio Ops...) was cool. I was on a cargo/passenger ship - a cargo ship with a dozen very wealthy passengers slumming it for a bit of adventure. 

I got fat; I left. Back hoe I had to earn a living and became a salesman. Why in God's name, I know not. I sold electronics to industry. I was useless at it. 

I ran away. 

And now I'm a fiction writer. I have 44 stories (novels and short story series). The series are in Bitesize, 1-hour reads: Saturday Matinee cliff-hangers that’ll keep you on the edge of your seat!

The Stories:

Clan - Season 1. A roller-coaster adventure following our hero, Calum Maclean through the Jacobite rebellion.

Clan - Season 2. Calum and Big John have been forced into exile in the New World. And trouble follows the like a magnet.

The Hellfire Legacy - Season 1. An Ethan Gill Thriller. Someone is taking out senior US military leaders one by one, and Ethan is called back from retirement to track down and stop the assassins.

Season 1 of Requiem for Eden - the 3rd comic fantasy in the Eden Stories Series. The war in Heaven first seen in 
Eden’s Last Hero continues. Anella and Woe are chosen as the heroes to save the day. If the Archangel Michael had known who he was choosing, he might have had second thoughts. Trouble…

Soldiers - Season 1 - a Saturday matinee adventure set during the bloody early days of the First World War

Men at Work – a look at men trying to avoid work. Funny and messy. Bad humour, and good fun!

More to come!