Scallywag (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781720550945)

David Charles lives for most of the year in southern Spain, with his wife Christine, three dogs and three cats. Born in Ipswich Suffolk, he started his own window cleaning business when he was twelve in order to earn pocket money and later took on a variety of jobs to pay his way through college. After college he worked in the telecommunications business for thirty five years reaching the level of senior manager in a multi-national telecommunications company. His literary career began when he took early retirement. His first work 'The House of Dreams' was published in October 2012 and was followed by 'Black Eyes and Shattered Glass' in 2015 and 'A Podenco's Tale' also in 2015. He has also had a selection of poetry published in two anthologies and has written and delivered a one hour lecture on the life and career of Earl Kitchener of Khartoum. Retirement gave him the opportunity to devote more time to his other hobbies which are reading, drawing, football and studying the people and events of the two world wars. David has two sons, and two grandchildren.