David at the UK launch of Goodbye East End.

After Grammar School he served two years of National Service. On demobilisation, he went out to join a kibbutz in Israel, where he stayed for fifteen years, serving periods as general secretary, farm manager and building supervisor. During this time, he began writing short stories and anecdotal accounts of kibbutz life.

Returning to England in the 1970s, he became a Construction Projects Manager and a member of the CIOB. He continued writing, mainly short stories and articles for magazines, and self published his kibbutz stories as Collectively Yours.

David holds a Masters’ degree in Palaeo-anthropology from UCL and having participated in an MA Creative Writing course and in several writers’ groups, he also self-published two novels and a short story collection.

He has recently completed a novel on an unusual aspect of WW1, and is working on two others. He has three children and lives in North London.