Auteur: Adrian Doyle

Adrian grew up in Edinburgh and spent over 20 years in corporate IT before deciding to become self-employed. His career split into various routes including freelance IT, performing and teaching guitar, clinical hypnotherapy and dog behaviour. In 2013, his wife and he bought their first small holding and started keeping sheep and chickens as well as growing their own fruit and vegetables.Adrian has learned much about smallholding life and has developed a range of skills such as building, plumbing, forestry, repairing dry stone walls, landscaping, lambing and handling livestock generally. Having at one time or another kept cows and pigs as well, they have simplified their life by focusing on sheep. These days, they keep a pedigree heard of coloured ryelands and live in the hills of SW Scotland.More recently, Adrian phased out the IT side of his life to give him more time to focus on his writing. His first two books are non-fiction and are based on his experiences as a smallholder and dog behaviouralist. His third book, Moss Piglet, is fiction and is based on his experiences as both a clinical hypnotherapist and spirit release therapist. This was published in May 2022. The main character, Brendan Murphy, is a reluctant therapist himself and finds himself dragged into a haunted house scenario. Moss Piglet is the first in the Brendan Murphy series. The second is written and being edited prior to publishing.