A WINCHESTER man has written three fictional novels in the last 14 months.

Paul Howard Surridge, a businessman, playwright and novelist, set about writing his first novel at the start of the Covid lockdown. Fast forward 14 months and he had completed three fictional books.

The first is the Coerced Killer, the second The Storyteller's Mistress and the latest launched in January through publisher Austin Macauley is titled Three Times a Killer.

All three are available via independent bookshops and online.

He admits it was a hard slog but worth all the effort. "I realised lockdown was the perfect time to embark upon writing my first novel. I had no idea what I would write about, and each day I would open my laptop at precisely 6am and a story started to emerge and the dialogue flowed.

“Having completed one book within four months I set about another, and after 14 months and 260,000 words, I'd completed all three."

Paul has already started work on his fourth novel.