About me
Anthony Coles is retired from a career as an art historian, teaching in universities on both sides of the Atlantic. His specialities were medieval architecture and early twentieth century European painting. He had a second, shorter career in international business.
He lived for fifteen years in a small house near the Roman Amphitheatre in Arles where he concentrated on writing, reading, cooking and trying not to drink too much in the company of a retired track greyhound called Arthur.
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He recently moved back to the UK with a new companion, Harry, a lurcher. He now lives in the Welsh hills and spends his time in exactly the same way as he did in France.
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He has written various art history books including a major monograph on John Heartfield, the German anti-Nazi photomontage artist. Now he writes a variety of sorts of books that include a series of adventure stories based in Provence and is starting another series of adventures set in Wales. He has also written a novel set in Arles during the Second World War and perhaps the first in a series set in mid-nineteenth Paris and featuring the exploits of Louis Drangnet, Chief Inspector in the Sûreté.
