Keith Lawson was Trackside Photographer for the local Speedway team – known as Oxford Rebels (1972-1975) then as Oxford Cheetahs (revising a previous nickname).
He previously wrote workbooks, guides and resources for assessors for National Vocational Qualifications whilst working in Adult Education and Professional Development. Since retiring, he looked back at his collection of photographs and decided to create retrospective yearbooks of speedway for the fans. His photographs of speedway in the 70s are much used across social media and picked up by the press on occasions when a story of a rider is in the news. He is a contributor to Wikipedia on biographies.
Loves historical fiction (Hilary Mantel, S.J. Parris, Bernard Cornwell, Harry Sidebottom, C.J. Sansom) as well as non-fiction (Tom Holland, Mary Beard, Richard Dawkins).
Favourite modern crime writers are Adrian McKinty, Steve Cavanagh, Don Winslow, Lou Berney, Dennis Lehane, Val McDermid and Jo Nesbo.
After writing his first fiction novella, “Cat-As In Burglar”, Keith has gone on to write a series of books and screenplays.
