Simon Keable-Elliott is a writer and lecturer based in South Londson. He has written articles for the Hawaii Civil Beat, Genealogy Today, The Church Times, The History News Network and The Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research. He is an accredited lecturer with the Arts Society and a regular speaker at events run by Western Front Associations, U3As and Family History Societies. His first book Utterly Immoral, Robert Keable and his scandalous novel is about his grandfather. He has spent four years researching the writers and artists who have visited and settled in Tahiti between 1767 and the 1920s.
Educated at Sherborne School and Durham University, Simon first worked in Fleet Street – as a barman – before managing restaurants in Mayfair, Hampstead and Putney. He owned and ran Keables, a café bar restaurant in West Norwood, for 8 years before re-training as a teacher and spending 25 years as Head of Politics and Director of MUN at a secondary school in Croydon.
