Conor Corderoy was born in England in 1957. He spent his childhood on Formentera, the smallest of the Balearic Islands. He had no schooling, though he had a governess for four years, who became an alcoholic and disappeared when he was twelve. He spent his teens in Cordoba, southern Spain, where he got his first job aged sixteen, breaking in wild horses. He has since done more jobs than he can remember, including free-lance writing, law, hypnotherapy and psychotherapy. He now divides his time between England and Spain. He is an Incorporated Linguists, a barrister, a psychologist and a Master Practitioner of NLP. He has published three novels.