Metin Murat is a British born Cypriot Turk. He grew up in a multi-cultural environment with deep exposure to English, French, and Welsh cultures. For much of his working life he has had close ties with North Africa, the Levant and the Gulf. He currently lives in a very rural part of the South West of France with his wife, multiple dogs and an assortment of wild-life that also lay claim, on a friendly basis, to his [...] received his history and literary education from Aberystwyth University, with an undergraduate degree and later a PhD, via a Master's degree at Lancaster University; and his business education from the London School of Economics - although he happily admits to being a hopeless dyslexic with a complete inability to 'do numbers' and learn in a linear classic [...] much of his adult life Metin worked for a multi-national company before setting up his own company in 2011. In recent years he has devoted his spare time to creative writing with the ambition of telling the story of his father's community, the original Turkish community of Cyprus.