Michael Tyne was born in 1964 in Lancashire, England. During the course of what is usually described as a "chequered" career, he has worked as a Stock Market analyst, a van-driver, a labourer, a bartender and a restaurant manager. He is now employed as an accountant in what he calls Car World, which still isn't sure quite what to make of him.
He has been writing for most of his life, and began to publish as an independent in 2014, completing his apocalyptic fantasy trilogy, "The Shattered Land" in early 2017. He has since published four more novels:
"The Last Great Radio Show", a gentle, humorous fantasy about rock music, ghosts, and growing old.
"Sharkey", his best-seller and most accoladed book, which even he finds almost impossible to describe but which creates a myth around a heroic figure who confronts the tragedy of homelessness both among the tramps of old and in modern Britain.
"The Final Resort", a supernatural murder mystery, set in a fading Lancashire seaside town.
And "Osaka", a huge, sprawling fantasy about an evolutionary shift in the human race itself, starting at Woodstock in the 1960's and building to a shattering climax in modern-day Japan.
HIs eighth and allegedly final novel, "Skinner", a (very loose) sequel to "The Last Great Radio Show", is finished and will be published in the near future.
Michael has lived, at various times, in London, Norfolk and Bermuda; but settled in a small town in the Peak District of England nearly twenty years ago, on the basis that he's been dreaming of a quiet life since he was seventeen and has finally found one.
