The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors published his book The French Building Industry in 1961, and he was Paris Correspondent to Building in 1963, 1964.

Has lived in France for 46 years, and was the first chartered surveyor to work in Paris.

He has always had a special interest in French history, and the comparison of French and British national personalities

This is factual fiction, a thrilling story accurately based on historical and personally known facts occurring during the Algerian crisis in Paris.

A sensitive evocation of a tense and forgotten period in French history; at once an exciting thriller and tender love story. Elizabeth Wassell