David grew up in Ilford, Essex. David says “swimming and water polo kept me out of trouble”. Leaving school at fifteen without qualifications David’s father arranged a job as an office boy in an insurance broker. From here he graduated to a junior broker working in ‘The Room’ at Lloyds. In 1963 David says, “I joined the police, only being accepted, I subsequently discovered, because I played league water polo.
In later years he owned pubs, restaurants and a recording studio. At times he worked
as a hotel detective and bodyguard to a Kuwaiti princess. Eventually he did ‘The Knowledge’ and became a London taxi driver, which Ihe still does part time today.
David.and Marika (the subject of David’s first book) have been married for over forty six years. They live in Whitstable, Kent, where Marika is an artist working in jewellery design, turning
musical instruments into works of art and painting in acrylics and oil. Some paintings reflecting her early life in the circus and on the streets of Budapest can be seen in “Gallery”
See Marika’s paintings Gallery
