Jack Fielding was born in London and is of mixed British and French heritage with a little Irish on his grandmother’s side. From the age of sixteen he has travelled and worked all over the world. Jack hauled mail bags off the night train, worked in a brewery and wore a security guard's hat before dividing his time between a career in special education and fashion modelling. He later ran his own business in Thailand for many years.

Unlikely escapades include a year as Helsinki's best dressed Teddy Boy and running a bar for General Franco’s interpreter in Paraguay. In SE Asia he coached Bangkok’s Elvis, starred in a travel commercial in Pattaya, and engaged in neferious activities along the Lao border. More recently, he was thrown out of a dysfunctional boarding school in Switzerland when it was discovered he couldn't speak German after all.

Jack discovered his creative voice while exploring a haunted pagoda on the Thai-Cambodian border. He went on to study creative writing at Brunel University. Encouraged by his therapist, Jack published his first novel Shadows and Pagodas to worldwide indifference. He draws on his many experiences to pen all sorts of stories and poems, often with a cheeky dash of Buddhist teaching.

Suffering from ill health, Jack finally returned home to England a few years ago with his family and settled in the lovely town of Shrewsbury. He is much better now and happily writing again.

His stories are dedicated to his wonderful (and amazingly patient)

wife and children.


"Mono no aware"
that sort of translates as a gentle sadness, an awareness of the transient nature of things