D.A. Holdsworth

D. A. Holdsworth started his career in finance, serving a two-year apprenticeship in fund management during a turbulent period that took in the bursting of the tech bubble and 9/11. From there he switched industry and built a two-decade career in educational publishing, helping to create textbooks and online resources for math and other subjects. He lives in Oxfordshire, with his wife and daughter.

For years he resisted the call to writing, until in 2016 he gave in to the inevitable and started work on How to Buy a Planet. Drawing on his experience of the tech crash and then the credit crunch, How to Buy a Planet is both a satire and an adventure, telling the story of three flatmates' quest to rescue the Earth after it's been sold to a consortium of financiers from—shall we say—a long, long way away.