Shaun Girling

I was born and raised in south-east England. During my teenage years only my teenage obsessions with R.E.M. and baseball stood out. I left town to pursue my non-practical dream of obtaining a liberal arts degree but got distracted on the way; I bought a guitar, taught myself to play and write songs and started performing around Birmingham. I continued to write, perform and record music whilst holding various bill-paying jobs until 2005 when I moved to Mainz, Germany. Soon after arriving in Germany I exchanged writing songs for longer texts and eventually began my first novel London, in Limbo. I am an English teacher and am now working on the difficult task of three second novels.