Branton grew up in
Sevenoaks,
Kent and was educated at
Sheffield City Polytechnic where as an undergraduate he was taught by the
Montserratian poet, playwright, and novelist
E A Markham, and as a postgraduate by the British novelist
Lesley Glaister. His first novel
The Love Parade was published in 1997;
The House of Whacks in 1999;
Coast in 2000;
The Hired Gun in 2001. Non-fiction includes
Write a Bestselling Thriller published in 2012. Branton published his fifth novel
The Tie and the Crest as a free download in April 2003. His novels, though commercially successful, are understood to belong to the politically-radical creative tradition, as does his work since 2003, usually published unsigned and unpublicized, frequently via social media. ==References==