Kypros Shacolas was born in Cyprus but grew up in London where he was educated and worked in the fields of shipping and commodity trading. He is well travelled and enjoys football, good music, wine, malt whisky and cigars. He is an animal rights campaigner and a vegetarian. He has written several theme/skeleton stories which he then sold to other authors for developing further but now he is writing novels under his own name. He also writes lyrics and poems both in Greek and English.