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About me
Engineer by day, writer by night.
In my day job, I’ve turned rock into fertilizer, recovered and recycled precious metals, brought medicines to market, made amazing new polymers, exported electricity, and directed international construction projects.
I’ve written about my first job in a Leith fertiliser factory in Phosphate Rocks: A Death In Ten Objects.
Losing Control, my latest book, is set in Teesside and was published November 2024
Work means travel, and I never leave home without a book or twelve.
I love a good thriller, but where are the female action heroes? Powerful, intelligent, honourable, compassionate women who get things done. Why aren’t they out there, solving mysteries and saving the world? Where is the female Bourne, Reacher, MacGuyver or Bond? Well, I got sick of wondering and hoping, and decided to write the stories that I wanted to read.
Meet Dr Jaq Silver. She blows things up to keep people safe. Her adventures are available from all good bookshops and on-line.
I’m interested in white collar crime, in the scientific and technological choices that are made for us without our knowledge. I’m fascinated by industrial disasters and passionate about environmental justice.
I write about the road less travelled.
Fiona Erskine
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
