Paul Martin: after graduating from University College Dublin with a degree in English and Italian, Paul Martin spent most of the next decade working and travelling extensively in Italy, Australia, the US and South America. His Travels with Bertha: Two Years Exploring Australia in a 1978 Ford Stationwagon, (Liberties Press, Dublin) was described by The Irish Times as one of the “Must Read Books of 2012”. Paul lives with his Italian wife, Barbara (whom he first met in Ancona in 1992) and their three children, in Greystones, Co. Wicklow. www.paulmartinwriter.com
