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WH (Johnnie) Johnson, a graduate of the University of Durham, is a former headmaster and schools inspector. Since his retirement in 1988 he has written more than twenty non-fiction books ranging from true crime and superstition to local history and the supernatural. Most have been traditionally published: others have been self-published. He has written principally for The History Press and Countryside Books

As Allen Makepeace he has written two novels, one of which, AND SUCH GREAT NAMES AS THESE, was awarded the prize for the 'best novel' by the National Association of Writers' Groups. The second novel, WINTER HUNT, a crime story set in the early nineteenth century, is available only as an e-book.

The memoir, A VIRGIN IN THE PHILIPPINES, is also available only as an e-book.
Johnnie was the ghostwriter of gangster Eddie Blundell’s book, TOP-DRAWER VILLAIN, which was published in November 2013. It was warmly praised on the BBC Radio 2 Steve Wright Show.

In the course of this second career, Johnnie has won the South East Arts Prose Prize and was a finalist for the Fenner Brockway Peace Prize for Literature and a runner-up in the international Alpha to Omega Short Story Competition.

He lives with Fay, his Filipina wife, in Eastbourne.

There are further details on www.johnniejohnson.co.uk