Anthony Riches
1961
Anthony Riches is a British writer a series of novels in historical military fiction, the most popular of which is the Empire series. He has always been interested in military history ever since he heard fascinating stories of the two world wars from his father and grandfather that were war veterans. He subsequently proceeded to attend Manchester University where he took a degree in Military Studies. Nonetheless, after graduating, he spent the next 25 years working for several well-known companies in a variety of roles. Over this period, Anthony Riches was a change project management and business systems expert and analyst, with the last decade spent in the Middle and Far East, the USA, Europe and the UK as a freelance project manager. He started writing the first draft of what would become his first published novel, Wounds of Honor in 1996, though he spent the next decade writing bits and ends of the novel on a succession of memory sticks and computer hard drives. However, the years spent writing the manuscript helped refine his fiction writing capabilities as he moved from the motivation of writing a novel purely for entertainment, to the more serious aim of publishing one. However, it was not until a life-changing event in Belfast, that he took his endeavor seriously and published the novel in 2009.