Stuart Campbell was a university Pro-Vice Chancellor and a Professor of Linguistics before he took up writing fiction in 2011. His other books include the novels The Making of Martin F. Mooney, An Englishman's Guide to Infidelity, and Cairo Mon Amour, as well as the novella Ash on the Tongue He is also the author of numerous academic works on Arabic-English translation, and on the Arabic component in Malay and Indonesian. Stuart lives at Manly Beach in Australia.