David Ebsworth is the pen name of writer, Dave McCall, a former negotiator and Regional Secretary for the Transport & General Workers' Union. Dave has travelled a great deal within western Europe, in Canada and the United States, in China, Nicaragua and Colombia. He was born in Liverpool but has lived for the past thirty years in Wrexham with his wife, Ann. They have four adult children and nine grandchildren. Since their retirement in 2008, the couple have spent about six months of each year in southern Spain. Dave began to write seriously in 2009.