Allison, Stuart

A history graduate with over 38 years teaching experience before retiring, I decided to try my hand at writing when, like my hero Ian West, my marriage collapsed. I have always thought that the best history teachers were good storytellers, Nothing Left to Lose was my first attempt at an historical thriller. I have always been fascinated by the idea of history coming back to bite you in the behind, so that was the concept that inspired me to write a plot where the past can have consequences in the present. My second novel - The Price Of Loss - is partly set in the chaos following the Bolshevik