Stuart Condie has been a Director of transport facilities across Europe and Australia but now works part-time as a consultant. He completed a two-year creative writing course at Sussex University in 2011 and is a founder member of the Chalk Circle writing and publishing group. Stuart has written over twenty short stories from flash to 8k words; four stories have been published in anthologies in the UK and USA and another is available in pamphlet form. The Uganda Sails Wednesday is his first full length novel and is the first of a trilogy. It was shortlisted for the Retreat West first novel prize 2019. Stuart is a UK French dual national and holds Masters Degrees from Cambridge and City Universities. He is married with two daughters and lives in Sussex.