About ME

Hi folks, thanks for visiting. I live in Somerset, England, and the climb up Glastonbury Tor is a local walk. What a lucky lad! 

My working life was mainly spent in creative agencies writing for corporate clients and the London theatre. I’d had various ideas for books over the years, then Covid happened and on day one of the lockdown in 2020 I typed the words ‘The Ghosts of Passchendaele’ at the top of a blank page. I was lucky enough to have my work noticed by Kate Hodern, a wonderful literary agent and subsequently signed with Hodder and Stoughton to produce three new books featuring Alma Timperley – a young woman with an astonishing secret. 

I have had supernatural experiences in various forms, and the events that happen to characters in the books have generally happened to me. I’m a quietly committed pagan who believes that there is far more to our existence than is obvious on the surface, and that is reflected in my writing. Oh, and I’m a bit of a stone circle botherer. I find them utterly beguiling, as readers of the Great Tew series will realise!

Most pagans are gardeners and I’m no exception. It’s an earth thing. See the images below of our garden in Somerset. Our little Eden. 

Frederick Petford author

Somerset Garden