Malcolm Mackley studied Physics at Leicester and Bristol Universities, then later moved to the Department of Chemical Engineering at Cambridge University where he devoted thirty years to teaching and research. He lectured on his specialist subjects throughout the world as a Fellow of Robinson College, a Professor of Process Innovation and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. In 2011 he moved with his wife Margaret, to Devon and experienced first hand the very exciting and different challenges of living in an iconic estuary town. Writing the book Daymouth was a liberating opportunity for him to move away from the constraints of scientific work and create an original fiction story about people, places and drama from an entirely different perspective. Malcolm continues a 'life long passion' of competing in racing sailing dinghies and has been drawn into many aspects of Devon life on both the land and water.
I hope those that have read Daymouth have enjoyed the read. The book is now selling well in the Salcombe area and the most common response I have had is that, 'Daymouth is a great page turner'.
Encouraged by the support from friends and readers, I am now on chapter twelve of 'Headland House'. This fiction book is very much more ambitious than Daymouth. Some of the characters are the same and the main location is Salcombe.
Headland House is set in 2024 and current global events are drawn into what I hope will be a 'super page turner' where Salcombe inventions and events, really do have the potential to change the rest of the world.
