about me

As a dental surgeon for 33 years, I was privileged to view human kind from close quarters - an ever-surprising, sometimes amusing, occasionally bizarre, but always encouraging experience.
Now early retired from clinical practice, I have the opportunity to explore my other great passion - history: its stories, people, variety and enigmas. I write fiction set in the past (cf. historical fiction), based very closely on such records as exist but interpreted anew. I don't see our forbears as essentially different from us; the world was, but even there, marked similarities and lessons can be found.
My novels are not 'what if did not happen' fantasies, but rather, 'look how nearly it didn't.' They don't claim to be how it all occurred - but how it plausibly could have. I don't shift recorded events, times and dates to make my stories. I look at them again and gratefully exploit ambiguity.

Of the battle<>stone © series, 'Battle Stone' © is the first.

Next to come, 'Tailèd Star' ©.

As yet, I'm professionally unrepresented.

I lately had my third win in the myTelegraph Short Story Competition judged by novelist and 2008 Booker Prize panelist, Louise Doughty. My stories are available to be read free via the link below.

favourite books

Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim.
Stan Barstow: A Kind of Loving/The Watchers on the Shore/The Right True End.
Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim.
Bernard Cornwell: The Warlord Chronicles.
Umberto Eco: Baudolino.
Frederick Forsyth: The Day of the Jackal.
Thomas Hardy: Far from the Madding Crowd.
Jack Higgins: The Eagle has Landed.
Conn Iggulden: Emperor series.
Harper Lee: To Kill a Mocking Bird.
Harold Robbins: A Stone for Danny Fisher.
J.D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye.
Mary Stewart: The Crystal Cave.
Adriana Trigiani: Lucia, Lucia.
Tim Willocks: The Religion.
.. many more .. and ..
Dan Brown: The Da Vinci Code. It's hokum, but millions of people turned millions of pages - quickly. It's a wonder we didn't feel a constant draught.

my websites

http://my.telegraph.co.uk/david_bradley_novelist     http://my.telegraph.co.uk/dr_david_bradley__writer