‘Deathday’ is Colin Philpott’s first work of fiction. Previously, he has written three books about twentieth-century history. ‘A Place in History’– the stories of places in Britain touched by news events; ‘Relics of the Reich’ – examining how Germany has dealt with the buildings left by the Nazis; and ‘Secret Wartime Britain’ – about hidden places in Britain that helped the war effort in the Second World War. Colin worked for the BBC for twenty-five years as a journalist, programme-maker and senior executive. Later he was Director of the National Media Museum in Bradford. He lives in Yorkshire.