Hello, and welcome to my website.
On a rainy afternoon over a cup of tea a Cumbrian farmer's wife told me about her childhood and how her father used to buy geese off passing Irish drovers, sometimes with a lad as a helper; and how the drovers would drive as many as a thousand or more birds past their door and on to Carlisle market. It was an exciting thought and my most recent book, The Drover's Boy, an adventure novel, simply grew out of it.I have been a writer most of my life and have had a few books published. Mainly they are about life a century ago in the English Lake District. Four are collections of old photos and two are fiction. The stories in Road to Paradise and The Drover's Boy grew slowly out of researching the people in the old photographs and an underlying theme slowly came into being to try to tell a little of the lives of those long ago times. My publishers include Robert Hale, Smith-Settle Publishing, CN Print and Handstand Press. All have been good to work with. Apart from books I've been a sub-editor on The Daily Telegraph, lived in Norway and Sweden, walked for seven or so months round Spain and Portugal, worked at the National Film Theatre and have given numerous illustrated talks about old Cumbria and the quality of life of those times, both in Britain and America. Please have a browse, and thank you for looking in. I can be contacted by email on info@irvinehunt.co.uk |