Jim Stevenson was educated at Ealing County Grammar School and at TS Mercury, a private Naval Training School on the river Hamble. He served in the RN for ten years then spent the rest of his working life as an engineer in the avionics business. He has produced a number of booklets, mostly autobiographical, for the amusement of his family, but ‘No Consolation' is his first published novel. He is a young ninety-two years of age and a dedicated family man. He lives in Gloucestershire with his wife of seventy-two years.
