Orlando Marville is from Barbados where he is a member of the Senate and a part-time lecturer at the University. He has spent most of his life either as a teacher or diplomat for his country in North and South America, Europe and Africa. In the process of his nomadic life, he acquired a handful of languages and an interest in the history of the people among whom he lived. He also occasionally worked as a photo-journalist or columnist and has always been writing poetry and short stories. Children of the Shadows is his first full length novel.