Julian Bonser

Julian Bonser, (Born 1 March 1944) is a British author who grew up in in West London and has lived most of his life in The Thames Valley.
Writing
If Julian Bonser had any writing ability in his earlier span of life, it manifested as flowery, highly embellished narrative that just didn't belong in the many technical reports required of him in the line of work. It wasn't until he was semi-retired that it occurred to him that maybe there was a frustrated writer within. For many years prior he'd had grandiose notions of becoming successful in some form of business venture. The ideas were there, but Bonser lacked the wherewithal to implement them. As it turned out, writing provided the answer, it being possible for Bonser to bring his creative ideas to life in a novel.
Love in Five Dimensions, Bonser's first attempt at fiction, is a veiled parody of events, people and places in his own life. Whereas Seeds that Kill started from a clean sheet of paper, the storyline feeding off recycled trivia and medical facts culled from the Internet. Dogged by a dreadful ambivalence all of his life, Bonser has struggled to establish himself in a consistent genre, his output todate spanning romantic adventure, murder mystery, a children's storybook, poetry and a range of novels exploring the colourful and less-savory aspects of life.

General Background
Julian Bonser started life in the West London suburb of Barnes amid the last knockings of World War 2. In 1949 he commenced full-time education at Lowther Primary School in Barnes, where his mother, a Supply Teacher, occasionally taught. This pre-war, red-brick school still exists as a highly rated learning centre.

School was a non-event for Bonser, and he left at 16 without any qualifications, and with absolutely no career aspirations. He worked briefly in the motor trade and tobacco industry, eventually getting work on the production line of an electronics company in Acton. He later became a trainee in their development labs and studied electronics part-time. Three years later, and qualified, he moved into broadcast television engineering. In 1969, and restless, Bonser emigrated to Australia under the £10 scheme, and worked as an engineer for Chanel 7, a local TV station in Melbourne. But he hankered after a formal qualification and enrolled as a mature student at Monash University. On graduating he took a research position, but homesick, Bonser succumbed to the call of Old Blighty and returned to West London.

Now aged 32, Bonser was taken on by Thorn-EMI as a junior Project Manager. Ironically, having acquired an engineering degree, he never practiced engineering per se. Two years on, Bonser left to work as a freelance Project Manager. It provided an interesting and lucrative, albeit relatively undistinguished career for the next 26 year. Aged 60, and seeking a change, Bonser reduced his Project Management work-load and looked around for some different challenges. With time on his hands, part of the answer came in the form of charitable work. It also gave an opportunity to explore the creative streak that had threaded his life, the result being his first novel which was published in 2006.
Books
* Love in Five Dimensions - 'Chasing romantic dreams can be a strange journey...' (2007)
* Seeds that Kill - 'DNA can be a good friend - and a lethal enemy!' (2008)
* Jack and Friends - 'An Illustrated Children's Story Book' (2008)
* My Mother's Beau - 'Passionate and verse from the heart of a quiet intellectual - my father' (2008)
* Pulp Library / Train Girls - 'They rode the Night Sleeper from dusk 'til dawn providing high-class mobile Personal Services' (2008)
* Pulp Library / Rogue Dentist - 'Female patients attending Ambrose Dupré's dental surgery received a very special kind of 'filling'...' (2009)
* Pulp Library / Celebrity Nightmare - 'Young Annie Sedgwick reached for the stars, but suddenly found herself heading for the gutter!' (2009)

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