Profile: Philip Perry

About This Author

With a background in writing training guides and technical documents, including magazine articles on the Series One Land Rover, I switched to fiction with ‘The Bench,’a book of short stories with an off the wall theme. This was followed by three novels set during the formative years of the Industrial Revolution. ‘Damned Charity,’ which follows the struggle of a Stockinger searching for a missing woman during the rioting that followed Nottingham’s Great Cheese Riot. ‘The Revolution Pump,’ which details an apprentice Frameworker’s struggle in Paris at the commencement of the French Revolution and in Nottingham during the subsequent political upheaval that divided the town and led to rioting, arson and the murder of several citizens. ‘ Framesmith,’ a tale of industrial espionage and murder during the 1831 Reform Riots that saw the burning down of Nottingham’s Castle and a Silk Mill, together with attacks on the houses of the rich and rioting in the streets. On a different theme, two slim volumes, ‘Bust’ and ‘The Shark on the Stairs,’ have been published; each one detailing the disasters and delights of Continental camping with an old Land Rover. 2023 saw a change of direction back to the technical, with a new series of books dedicated to CAD programming for 3D printing. Each titled ‘Design, Model, Print, Build;’ a simple machine is reverse engineered in order to identify the steps needed to produce a 3D printed model. Aimed at the student or individual taking their first steps into 3D printing the books identify the machine's parts, detail how to use OpenSCAD to create the relevant files and demonstrate the printing process. As an additional bonus the contents also include the data relating to construction of a full scale model of the machine. The volumes published to date are ‘D M P B The Shavehorse.’ and D M P B The Pole Lathe. In the pipeline for publication in late 2024 will be a reconstruction of the Hurdy Gurdy, a complex medieval stringed instrument involving precise modelling and attention to fine detail.