Born in Portsmouth, Sean grew up in an Irish community so tight-knit that he was 11 before he discovered that he didn’t live in the west of Ireland.

He is now writing books, after several hundred years of journalism, which has included the BBC, the Guardian and the Times Educational Supplement.

Living in London, he is married with three daughters, sharing a small house with a larger than life springer spaniel. His long term ambition at home is to finish a sentence.

His hymn of praise to sleep, the Sleepyhead’s Bedside Companion, was followed by a collection of poetry in a recent anthology, Greenwich Reach. Attempts to stop him writing a novel are looking increasingly unsuccessful.

PUBLISHED WORK

• The Sleepyhead's Bedside Companion