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Martin Hilyard
Martin Hilyard is the son of a Polish father conscripted into the German army and liberated during the Normandy landings. His father was an affectionate but distant and deeply reli...view moreMartin Hilyard is the son of a Polish father conscripted into the German army and liberated during the Normandy landings. His father was an affectionate but distant and deeply religious man. Martin is an atheist but some of his earliest memories are of sonorous Latin chants, incense, the chime of quiet bells summoning the divine. He wrote poetry in school, science-fiction later, mostly (completely) for his own enjoyment.He went to India as a teenager: the Mughal palaces and imperial reminders of the Raj. The high Karakorams, the timelessness of Srinagar. The bustle and drama of Bombay. Then university, a fairly sterile time but he loved the histories he discovered of unfamiliar countries and unremembered times.He settled in Liverpool in the 1980s. There he learned that we can’t always change the world but in trying to the world may change us. He became interested in role-playing games, creating history-based sagas, realising how much he enjoyed shaping worlds then having his design overthrown by the characters that entered his world.Martin has returned to writing to share through story-telling something of what he believes. He has a charming, homely, loving partner and they live in a forever home in Liverpool. He is personable, engaging, serious, a thinker and listener, gets on well with people, works hard and likes to write quickly and fluently. He likes nothing better than conversation. So if you're ever in Liverpool, stand him a pint on a Saturday afternoon.view less