Dickon was brought up in London and Ireland. He lived in 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 published his first novel, A Month In The Life Of Jackson Grimes. A revised edition will be available in 2025. Much like a 1970s laundry detergent it will be new and improved – yet pretty much the same. 

His second novel, The Bald Monkey, was released in November 2024.

He’s also a rather good photographer. Examples of his work can be seen in two galleries on this site, Black & White and Colour, the titles for which took an awful lot more time and effort to come up with than will ever be admitted. 

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. Occasionally he writes about his floating shenanigans in his Captain’s Blog.