Steve Sheppard

Steve Sheppard was born in Guildford and spent nearly forty years moving around Surrey before running out of places to live there and moving to Buckinghamshire and thence to Oxfordshire, where he spent a quarter of a century in a quirky village which thought it was in the Cotswolds, but wasn’t.

Having written a book, Steve felt it was time to move again before the paparazzi caught up with him and decided to head back to his roots. However, he forgot to stop when he reached Guildford and ended up in Petersfield in Hampshire.

Steve has spent his whole life trying to discover the secret of how to become a fully-functioning adult. He has so far failed. One thing he has learnt is that he ought to have tried writing a book forty years earlier than he did, although he also now realises that he should have become a celebrity first, as this would have made selling it much easier. He currently has three spy thrillers with laughs to his name, all published by Claret Press: A Very Important Teapot (2019) set in Australia, Bored to Death in the Baltics (2021), not set in Australia and Poor Table Manners (2024), which takes place in Cape Town.  These feature a fairly hapless hero, Dawson, and a considerably less hapless heroine, Lucy, together with varied supporting casts, most of whom are not  who they claim to be. The books have been read by approximately a million fewer people than Steve might have hoped. Despite this, a fourth title is on the cards and Steve has also now released into the world a comedy-murder-mystery, Lazytown, set in a slightly odd English village.