After qualifying as a teacher and working in London FE colleges, he worked in book publishing, first for small literary publisher Marion Boyars, moving on to Grafton Books (later subsumed into HarperCollins).
He worked in book publishing for small literary publisher Marion Boyars. This was first. He was moving on to Grafton Books (later subsumed into HarperCollins). He was qualifying as a teacher. He was working in London FE colleges.