City of Animals

Alan Mills was born in England but migrated to Australia at the age of 23. He has worked as a research assistant in criminal psychology in a British maximum security prison; a sideshow barker in a travelling carnival; a scriptwriter for a TV cop series; a high school teacher; a bookshop manager; an English instructor at the Japanese Foreign Ministry in Tokyo; an odd-job man in a lion safari park; a forestry worker; a timekeeper on a railroad construction project in north-west Australia; and a copywriter and creative director in advertising agencies. A black belt in karate with a Masters in English Literature, Mills currently lives in Sydney.