Peter Morse

Born and educated in London, Peter Morse was, by his own publisher's account, conceived the morning after VE Day in 1945. Before turning to fiction, he spent thirty-four years as a mechanical engineer with Rolls-Royce plc and became a specialist in subsonic, air-breathing missile propulsion systems.

After retiring before the end of the 20th century and carrying out a period of consultancy work for HM Government, he began writing full time. He has been based in a village between Bath and Bristol, and SilverWood Books identifies An Unknown Soldier as his first publication with them, followed by Random Consequences.

That unusual path from highly technical work to novel writing gives his author story a distinctive feel: practical, patient, and shaped by long experience. His published fiction has been described as ranging from wartime reflection to contemporary, darkly comic drama.