Paul Tumilty was born in Leek, Staffordshire, in November 1950.
Having taken early retirement from his career in 2002, he started writing and completed his first novel, The Tussaud Incident, later that year. A second novel, The Akula Incident followed in quick succession. However, his main love of the theatre guided him to concentrate on writing comedy plays for the theatre and television. Having lived on the Caribbean island of Roatan for four years, Paul and his wife Barbara have returned to England to Dorset where they live with their adopted Honduran cat, Callie
