About John Brookland

John Brookland

Publisher, Author & Blogger

John recently became an independent publisher under the imprint Bitza Books and is an affiliate member of the Association of Self Publishing Authors (ASPA), a bookstores.org affiliate and a Goodreads author. His books are printed and widely available from Amazon and Ingram Spark both to readers and the trade and from most online retailers and bookstores such as Waterstones, Foyles and Blackwell's.

John was born and brought up in Kent, a County which has remained his spiritual home although he now resides in rural Suffolk. He began writing following retirement from a long career in animal welfare in the UK and abroad. His first books were memoirs and autobiographies about his exploits and adventures helping animals.

Having always had an interest in social history and true crime of the Victorian and Edwardian period, he now writes true crime narratives about a long-forgotten celebrated Edwardian Detective named Edwin Fowle who policed the area he was born in. He has also written about the 150 year history of a local Kent department store chain, also a social history of his family home and a book on the war horses of WW1 and several magazine articles.

John has authored a popular animal welfare blog named animalrightsandwrongs.uk since 2017 with a readership in a hundred countries. Why not give it a look using the link below.