Michael is the author of two books which take an original and cogent view of the relationship between William Shakespeare and Francis Bacon. His first work married traditional Baconian studies with Ted Hughes' groundbreaking approach to Shakespearean studies. Entitled Ugly Dick and the Goddess of Complete Being: The Death and Resurrection of William Shakespeare, it views the First Folio as a psycho-allegory constructed by Bacon. More details can be found at his website

http://www.thegreatpesher.com

An extract of this work was published as The Shakespeare Pesher in the inaugural online Baconiana (Summer 2007).

His second published book will be Don Quixote and the Brilliant Name of Fire: Qabalah, Tarot, and Shakespeare in the Greatest Novel, (to be published by Ex Libris Press in April 2008). This will make a fascinating companion piece to Francis Carr's Who Wrote Don Quixote?

Michael works in the book industry. He was born in 1954 in Sydney, Australia, where he still lives. As well as his Baconian writings, he has had poems, book reviews, and other articles on literature published in newspapers and literary journals.