Paul Mackereth
Paul Mackereth grew up in a West Yorkshire textile town, but migrated across the Pennines to live in Preston for a while before heading south to London. He managed to find work in a disparate range of occupations (call centre lackey, snowboard bum, pub reviewer, Excel geek and coastguard officer) despite initially working for several years as a careers adviser.
Paul returned to Yorkshire in the early 2000s, settling with his wife and cat in a small village a few miles from the North Sea where...
