John Clare
John Clare was born on a luxury yacht in the
Caribbean, and has been a traveller ever since, having visited
and lived in nearly a hundred countries. He now lives some of
the time in an old farmhouse at the end of a dirt track in the
Algarve.
He has been a company director in Central London, a
road-sweeper, a mini-cab driver, a goat-herd in the mountains of
Morocco. He's been a lawyer, a university lecturer, a property
developer, and musician. He even used to perform in a pop band
and still runs a record company and recording studio.
The Hello Girls series (seventeen volumes written so far
and counting) has been developed from the initial
autobiographical first volume. These books start with a bunch of
kids living in a small village in England. They use each other
as sexual playthings, but grow up, stay a tightly knit group,
and go on to be successful people in their own specialities.
His current books include The Ultimate Real Estate Guide
(he also invented buy-to-let and owns the longest running real
estate site on the web). There are also several volumes of
autobiography, including books on Spain and Portugal, and an
introduction to Bitcoin and crypto-currencies.