Anthony Conway

Anthony Conway is the author of The Moon Tree, a saga of the 1940s Burma War and the years of conflict that followed. It is now available both as print and eBook.

He has also written the novels of the Caspasian series published by Hodder & Stoughton, as well as a Great War thriller, Jaeger; and for younger readers, Teddy Brutus.

Anthony read English and Philosophy at St David’s University College, Lampeter. After training at Sandhurst he was commissioned into 7th Duke of Edinburgh’s Own Gurkha Rifles, remaining with the Brigade of Gurkhas for twelve years. In 1982 he fought as a Platoon Commander with his Regiment in the Falklands War and thereafter served in other posts both within the Brigade and throughout the wider reaches of the British Army.

On leaving the Army he worked with film director John Boorman, writing his own screenplay The Long March, about China in the 1930s. He also wrote a screenplay about the life of one of his heroes, French writer and pioneer airman Antoine de Saint Exupéry.

Anthony was a director of an export company for many years, travelling extensively in Asia. Originally from Surrey, he now lives in Cheshire and London.

He is represented by Ian Drury of Sheil Land Associates Ltd, London.