Brock and Kolla

Barry Maitland is an author whose family comes from Paisley which is an industrial city near to Glasgow in Scotland and also where he was born. When he was young they moved to London, where he went to a school. His English teacher inspired him more about literature. Barry however wanted to be an architect and after high school he studied for the same at Cambridge University. After a practicing period he then studied urban design at the University of Sheffield. He also taught in the same university. In the year 1984 he was offered a position of the head of architectural school at the Australia’s University of Newcastle and he moved to the place together with his family. 6 years later Newcastle got struck by an earthquake and his wife, Margaret almost got killed when their house fell in. It was really a dramatic as well as chaotic time, and the reaction to what was around Barry and his family, He began to think about the murder mystery plot for the series where he established the 1st novel of the series, The Marx Sisters. It was published in the year 1994, and it became the 1st of book of the series of 12, Brock and Kolla books which were to be published over the following twenty years, together with the one stand-alone mystery thriller known as Bright Air which is set in Australia. In the year 2000 he retired from the University of Newcastle so as to focus on full time writing. Barry’s latest project is the full-blooded Australian set of novels in the Belltree Trilogy. He lives and writes in the small town found in Hunter Valley, the attractive wine-growing and also agricultural area located in New South Wales of the Pacific Coast in Australia. It coexists with one of the hugest coal ports in the world.