John Moss studied Fine Arts and English in Wolverhampton and Manchester Art Schools, before taking early retirement after teaching and lecturing in Art & Design in North-West England. He founded the Graphic Design company, Papillon Graphics, in 1997\. Retired at last, he began writing the first of a science fiction quartet called ‘Time Interventions’ in 2013 and more recently, a crime mystery novel entitled ‘The Woman with the Big Suitcase’ in 2023\. His first non-fiction books were ‘Great British Family Names’ in 2019, ‘A History of English Placenames’ in 2020, ‘Celtic Places & Placenames' in 2022 and 'The Celtic Tribes' in 2024\. This will be his fifth history book to be published by Pen and Sword Books.