Born in Lancashire, Nigel Hanson enjoyed a varied career, starting out as a Civil Engineer and later branching into project management for major British companies in the UK and Saudi Arabia. From there he became the commercial manager for a Lancashire based engineering group of companies, eventually leading to the role of general manager of a major UK desalination plant group.

He has travelled extensively abroad and, for the last thirteen years of his career, took a totally different path to become Blackpool’s first Town Centre Manager, eventually succeeding in creating the first Business Improvement District in the north-west.

Since retirement, much of his time has been spent on what he always wanted to do in life – writing.