Dickon was brought up between London and Ireland (Co Wexford) before moving to Los Angeles for much of the 1990s, where he studied film at USC and UCLA. He then spent the better part of two decades in the film industry, mostly scripting in London.

In 2019 he shifted his creative focus towards writing prose and published his first novel, A Month In The Life Of Jackson Grimes.

Since 2011 he has lived on a narrowboat, The Good Ship Junie, and can generally be found pootling around the Grand Union Canal in and around London.

For the last few years he’s been attempting to navigate The Oxford Loop and chronicle the journey in an epic blog. So far, he has yet to make it beyond Milton Keynes. You can read all about the two aborted attempts in the Skipper’s Log section of this website – and, perhaps, a third go in the Spring and Summer months of 2024…