Whatever Happened to Billy Parks

Gareth R Roberts was born in Llangollen and brought up in Llandudno in North Wales.He studied Politics at the LSE, and spent seven years working as a speech writer and researcher in the Houses of Parliament.In 1997, he decided that he’d had enough of politics and re-trained for the Bar, being called by Grays Inn and commencing as a criminal barrister in 1999 in Chambers in Chester.In 2005 he wrote his first novel, That Immortal Jukebox Sensation, a dark comedy about a solicitor who decides that he wants to kill a pop-star.His new novel ‘Whatever Happened To Billy Parks?’ is due to be published by The Friday Project, an imprint of Harper Collins, as an e-book in October 2013 and a conventional book in January 2014.Gareth is married to Ines and has three sons.In his younger days he played rugby for North Wales and was a sprinter, once holding the North Wales schoolboy records for the 100 and 200m. He also blogs under the name Ray North for the politics, music and sport website www.Allthatsleft.co.uk.

‘An engaging story of wasted talent, second chances and the beautiful game’ THE SUN‘A unique tale of sporting redemption *****’ FOUR FOUR TWO‘Billy Parks should go down in folklore as a footballing immortal. His story deserves to sit alongside David Peace’s “The Damned Utd”. It really is that good’ PHIL EARLE, author of BEING BILLY