I am an IT Manager working for a Financial Services company in the City of London. In 2002 I attended a Creative Writing course where at the end we were asked to write short stories relating to the local area’s history. My story was based around the English bare fist fighting championship that took place in Hornchurch in 1795 and it was selected by the creative writing group to appear in their collection of stories that was published in 2004 – ‘New mythologies: short stories about Havering past and present’. My novel, ’LORD TOM