Neville Steed
Author of Tinplate
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- Canonical name
- Steed, Neville
- Legal name
- Sharam, Norman Keith
- Other names
- Steed, Neville
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Places of residence
- Wiltshire, England, UK
Devon, England, UK - Education
- Oxford University (Law)
City of London School
Streete Court School - Occupations
- advertising copywriter
novelist - Relationships
- Furnivall, Kate (wife)
- Organizations
- Lintas
Saatchi & Saatchi - Awards and honors
- John Creasy Award, Best First Mystery
- Short biography
- Norman Sharam (41-45) had two great problems at Streete Court School, which were sports and Greek, the latter under Mr Peebles. He enjoyed acting in The Tempest and generally playing the fool. Norman went on to the City of London School where he went up the Classical side, then on to Oxford to read Law. He joined Unilever in their advertising agency, Lintas, where he was a copywriter. After five years, he joined Hobson Bates Advertising, which is now Saatchi & Saatchi and became creative director and deputy chairman. During this period, he married and had two sons. Sixteen years later he set up his own advertising agency in London but after six years sold to become a novelist, which for many years had been his ambition. Norman has had thirteen novels published, three under his own name and ten under the pen-name Neville Steed. This has enabled him to live happily in the beautiful county of Devon with his second wife who is also a novelist. They have two sons of their own and he dabbles in oil painting, a talent that he says he perhaps owes to Mrs Hoare's art lessons!
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- Works
- 9
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- 1
- Members
- 109
- Popularity
- #178,011
- Rating
- 3.5
- Reviews
- 3
- ISBNs
- 31
Loved the characters, the setting and the plot of this introduction to the world of Peter Marklin and the toy collecting fraternity.
Mixing WWII aircraft crash sites with the world of tinplate toys and cast of interesting characters this one was a real page-turner which never failed to entertain.
Murder and mystery at every turn