Jeremy Akerman is an adoptive Nova Scotian who has lived in the province since 1964. In that time he has been an archaeologist, a radio announcer, a politician, a senior civil servant, a newspaper editor and a film actor.He is painter of landscapes and portraits, a singer of Irish folk songs, a lover of wine, and a devotee of history, especially of the British Labour Party. Jeremy's first novel, Black Around the Eyes, was published in 1981. Other projects required his intention until recently, when he was able to take up fiction again. From the start of 2023 to the spring of 2024, he wrote and published ten novels.