Actor
Writer
Commmunications
Creatively, Paul has produced short plays that have been recognised nationally. His works, The Fairy Fella’s Master Stroke and Dice With Death, were both shortlisted for national festivals and subsequently performed on stage. More recently, his short play, Shadowglass, made the semi-finals in the national TakeTen Playwriting Festival.
A trilogy of literary crime novels following Saoirse Kearney, an adopted young woman who discovers that she was born of a crime, and Orestes Theodorou, the Greek police officer who becomes her partner in SOS Investigations. Each book can be read on its own; each turns on something hidden beneath the surface.
Some secrets refuse to stay buried.
“Palimpsest. A manuscript scraped clean and written over – though the original text, if you knew how to look, could still be read beneath the surface.”
A dead mother’s diary. Six Oxford friends and one Greek summer. A silence kept for nineteen years.
Saoirse Kearney is eighteen, adopted, and very good at keeping her life under control. Then a solicitor hands her a diary written by the birth mother who died soon after giving her up. Its pages lead back to the summer of 2005, to a villa on the Greek island of Lemnos and six Oxford friends who swore never to speak of what happened there.
When builders unearth human remains near the villa, Saoirse goes to Lemnos to find out who she really is. With Orestes Theodorou, a young officer with a personal reason to hate the six, she uncovers a crime, a death and two decades of lies – and begins to plan a reckoning of her own.
Complete · c. 90,000 words · Seeking representation
Some truths are only painted over.
“Pentimento: the appearance or reappearance of earlier paintings, or parts of paintings, underlying the finished composition, showing that the artist has changed their mind during the work.”
– The Oxford Dictionary of Art
A girl under the paint. A dinner where two men died. A detective whose report was the perfect crime.
When an X-ray reveals a young woman’s face beneath a Cornish seascape, Saoirse and Orestes follow her to Enys Dhu, a tidal island where, in the summer of 1966, a model walked into the sea and an innocent woman went to prison.
Sixty-two years later, someone is restaging that night – using Saoirse’s own methods. And on Midsummer Eve, as she stands to tell the truth, the lights go out.
Complete draft · c. 98,000 words · In editing
Beware what lies within.
“Shadowglass: a mirror on one side, a window on the other – for whoever is standing behind it.”
A minister who cannot remember. A spy novel that should not exist. A mirror with someone behind it.
When a British Defence minister wakes, drugged, in a West London brothel – surrounded by cameras and certain that his summit papers have been stolen – Saoirse and Orestes find nothing in his briefcase but a paperback spy novel whose hero is codenamed Shadowglass.
The codename leads them into a web of mirrors, forged art and political blackmail that stretches from post-war Tangier to the heart of the British establishment.
In development · Based on Paul’s TakeTen semi-finalist play
A number of Paul’s short plays have been shortlisted in national writing competitions and performed on stage.
In 2025, Paul was elected Chairman of Chesil Theatre, Winchester, where he has directed and appeared in a diverse range of productions. His stage credits include classics like Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, Arthur Miller’s All My Sons, Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, several Vaclav Havel’s short works, and Noël Coward’s Present Laughter, alongside modern works such as Dario Fo’s Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay, Ted Tally’s Terra Nova, Peter Whelan’s The Accrington Pals, and several Alan Ayckbourn plays.
Recent appearances include Debbie Ibbett’s Nasty Neighbours (2023), and the award-winning short plays Firing Blanks (2024) and Forgiving Sunshine (2024).
A Chartered PR Practitioner with more than thirty years of senior experience in financial services, wealth management and pensions, Paul builds corporate reputations, coaches C-suite leaders and manages complex crises, bringing clarity, precision and a storyteller’s instinct to every brief.
He has led communications strategy and cultural change at AXA Wealth, Winterthur (Credit Suisse) and Sun Life Financial, where he played a key role in global IPOs and demutualisations. Most recently he led marketing and PR for the LPP Group, including LPP Investments (LPPI) and GLIL Investments.
As Chairman of Chesil Theatre, Paul oversees a venue sustained by more than two hundred volunteers, where he has long acted, directed and supported marketing. His stage work includes Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, Arthur Miller’s All My Sons, Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Noël Coward’s Present Laughter and several of Václav Havel’s short plays, alongside Dario Fo’s Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay, Ted Tally’s Terra Nova, Peter Whelan’s The Accrington Pals and several Alan Ayckbourn comedies.
He was executive producer of the feature film Summit Fever (2022). Recent screen appearances include Debbie Ibbett’s Nasty Neighbours (2023) and the award-winning shorts Firing Blanks and Forgiving Sunshine (both 2024).
