I lived most of my life in London, moving to Shropshire when I retired from my job as a lecturer at a horticultural college. As a side line I used to write articles about plants and their place in mythology and religion, which were published throughout the world. These I eventually turned into the hardback book I have in print, and which is available through Amazon, Gardens of the Gods, a history of the part played by plants in the world's religions from prehistoric times to the present day. Now I write gardening articles for the village newspaper and help write plays for a local amateur dramatics group. I am a member of Mensa and of the British Society of Dowsers. My first novel, Why Weeps the Willow, a ghost story set in Norfolk, was published as an e-book by Amazon Kindle in November 2011 and as a paperback by Create Space in December 2013. My second novel, Let Sleeping Evils Lie, another ghost story set in Norfolk, was published as an e-book by Amazon Kindle in December 2012, and as a paperback by Create Space in December 2013. My third novel, Murder In The Marches, a police based mystery centred around drug smuggling in Shropshire and the Welsh borderlands, was published as an e-book by Amazon Kindle in June 2013, and as a paperback by Create Space in November 2013. My fourth novel, Murder and Mayhem at Middleton Hall, a blackly humorous story set in a suburban park during the 1980s,was published as an e-book by Amazon Kindle, and as a paperback by Create Space, both in December 2013. My fifth novel, Murder Out Of Memory, a murder mystery solved from beyond the grave, was published as an e-book by Amazon Kindle, and a paperback by Create Space, in December 2014. I also have a history of the Baugh Family of England, Scotland, the East Indies and the United States, available as an e-book published by Amazon Kindle in 2013. My website is http//brianwtaylor@blogspot.com