Gwyn Bennett

I began writing books before I’d even reached my tenth birthday. I was an avid reader and literally read our local library dry of fairy stories before graduating to more grown up novels and found my love of thrillers and crime books through Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and then a little bit of horror with Stephen King. I still read avidly, and enjoy a variety of genres. Do please send me your recommendations as I’m always looking for the next great read and to being introduced to a new author. 

My mind was made up from that early age, that I wanted to be a writer. However, I realised that I perhaps needed to live life a bit first and also, quite critically, be able to earn a living and so I decided to become a journalist. I have always been a bit of a workaholic and very determined (my husband might call it stubborn!) and I worked hard and was lucky to have a fantastic career, achieving my dream of becoming a UK national news presenter with both the BBC and ITN, and even international newsreader through the BBC’s World Service Television. I presented a variety of TV programmes and enjoyed the buzz of live television. My journalistic career was under the name Gwyn Jones. I set up a magazine publishing company at one stage in my life, turned my hand to freelance writing for national newspapers and magazines when our children arrived, but throughout all this I never stopped writing my fiction stories.

It wasn’t until 2016 that my first book was published, Islands. It had taken me a couple of years to write, countless major rewrites, but I shall always be very proud of that first novel which instantly became an Amazon best seller. By then, we had moved to Jersey. (Unfortunately, we aren’t rich tax exiles, my husband was born here and always wanted to return when he had his family and children, we’d met in the UK.) It’s a lovely island and a great place to bring children up).

I carried on working as a TV journalist and newsreader with BBC Channel Islands TV, before deciding that the hours really weren’t conducive to spending time with my family (newsreaders are always at work while everyone else is at home watching them in the evenings) and so I trained in Public Relations and later Digital Marketing and went into that line of work for a bit. But yes, you guessed it, all the time I was also writing books in my spare time. 

It was towards the end of 2019 (right before the pandemic) that I was able to go full time writing. I have hundreds more books in me yet to write, and not just psychological or crime thrillers, and I cannot wait to share them with you.

Thank you again for coming on this journey with me. I hope you enjoy meeting my characters and sharing their stories, please do get in touch and let me know and I’m always very grateful for reviews on wherever you purchase or hang out on social sites. I’d also love it if you sign up to my book newsletter, that way I can send you offers and keep you up to date with new releases. You can unsubscribe at any time and I will never pass your emails on to anyone else. 

Until the next time, happy reading

Gwyn