Joshua Anderson TaylorBorn and raised in Brentwood, Essex, Joshua was raised on a mixed diet of sturdy Christian sensibility and early naughties teenage tomfoolery. He left home at 18 and in honour of the long standing middle-class tradition of taking a gap 'yar' travelle the jungles, mountains and plains of eastern and southern Africa. Whilst volunteering in Tanzania he developed a passion for story-telling, teaching and photography as well as life-long love for the awe-inspiring splendour of the natural world. After graduating by the skin of his teeth from the University of Chichester (with a 'just about' respectful 2:2) in Performing Arts with Design for Digital Media, Joshua jumped on a cruise ship where he lived and worked as a commissioned photographer, sailing the Mediterranean and Caribbean and pestering passengers at dinner time to meet his quota. When cabin fever finally set in and his credit at the crew bar had dried up, Joshua moved back to Brentwood and set up a wedding photography business in his mum and dad's garage, subsidised largely by shifts at a local Irish whisky bar. In 2014 Joshua was awarded Qualified Teacher Status by Canterbury Christchurch University and worked as a Primary School teacher in Romford where he shared his love of books, writing and story-telling with eager audiences. In 2016 Joshua met a girl on the 'questionably dubious' dating platform Plenty of Fish and is now happily married with a three month old son, living the suburban dream in Surrey. Still a Primary School teacher, he writes epic fantasy and children's story books in any spare time afforded to him. Read More Read Less