Charles Ambrose is a visual artist and writer. He was born in Essex, England and lived in Montreal, Canada for twenty years, returning to London in the mid 1970's. Ambrose studied photography, film, and fine art and has worked as a photographer, film animator, cameraman and video editor. In parallel with his art practice, Ambrose has had an academic career, latterly as an art historian and writer. He lives in South East London with his wife and step-daughter. “The Grandfather Paradox” is Charles Ambroses' first work of fiction. His second novel, "The Eighth Image", is due to be published by Troubador in October 2026.
The so-called “grandfather paradox” (also known as the consistency paradox) is a temporal paradox that occurs when an aspect of the past is changed in any way, thus creating a contradiction.
During August 2024, Chris Meigh-Andrews was writer-in-residence at Stegner House in Eastend, Saskatchewan, where he was able to work on the novel and conduct research on the locations where his grandfather AWJ Andrews ("Jack") spent his first few months in Canada during the early 1920's before heading to Calgary to work for the CPR railway and then to the Backus Brooks Paper Company in Kenora, Ontario.
