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THE STORY SO FAR

For Ian Gregoire, the journey to becoming an author was a long one with many stops and starts along the way. It began at seven years of age when he read The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis for the first time. This magical childhood experience kindled a love for both reading and storytelling that remains undiminished to this day.

It was a few short years later, as an eleven year old, that Ian first came to believe he had discovered his calling in life. For an English assignment at school he was required to write a short story to be entered into a literary prize. While he can’t for the life of him remember what his story was about, he has never forgotten that it earned him a runners-up place, and a certificate presented to him during a school assembly. From that moment he knew he was meant to be a fiction writer, though he never suspected it would take him three decades to reach his destination.

The dream stalled ten years later after Ian dropped out of university, abandoning his degree. Though still enjoying storytelling as a hobby, he reluctantl

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BIOGRAPHY

Ian Fraser is an award-winning journalist, commentator and broadcaster who writes about business, finance, politics and economics. He has written for titles including The Economist, Financial Times, The Sunday Times, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Independent on Sunday, the Herald, Sunday Herald, BBC News, Thomson Reuters, Dow Jones, Accountancy, CA Magazine and Citywire.

His book, Shredded: Inside RBS, The Bank That Broke Britain, published in June 2014, explores how and why RBS, the world’s largest company by assets at the time of its collapse, became the world’s most expensive bank to bail out. The book — based on extensive interviews with more than 120 current and former RBS insiders, advisers, politicians, and others — was longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year and has received positive reviews including from FT chief economics correspondent Martin Wolf.

Since March 2009, Ian has worked on programmes about the global financial crisis and its aftermath for the BBC. These have inclu

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Ian had a love for music and football from a very early age. His Dad and Grandad were both staunch Birmingham City fans, and Ian attended his first game at St Andrew’s with them in December 1974 at the age of 6 – he remains a passionate ‘Bluenose’ to this day. The love of music also came from his Dad and Grandad who were both talented pianists, and Ian took piano lessons up until his early teens, by which time he’d switched to playing drums as his first instrument. He formed his 1st band at school with classmates, but it wasn’t until early 1985 that he put together his first serious band, called Minotaur with school pal Andy Simmons and local guitar player Keith Laurent who’d answered an advert Ian & Andy had placed in the window of Solihull’s Organ Shop.

Ian began his working life after leaving Solihull Sixth Form College in the late 80’s at Lloyds Bank in Shirley. His love for music led him to switch career to work in music retail a year later when he joined Express Music in Shirley, selling digital pianos and guitars. Minotaur disbanded around this time, and Ian was asked