Richard Aronowitz works in the international art world, he has one son and lives in Oxford. His debut novel, Five Amber Beads, told the story of his mother's Jewish family during and after the Holocaust and was published by Flambard in 2006. Richard's second novel, It's Just the Beating of My Heart, featured an alcoholic American art dealer in the idylls of the Cotswolds and it came out with Flambard in 2010. His third novel, An American Decade, focused on ten years in the life in New York of the German singer who may well have been the author's grandfather and it was published by Headline Accent in 2017. Richard's debut poetry collection, Life Lessons, was published by Palewell Press in 2019. His new novel, Night Comes Down, about the coming of the railways to a remote part of England in the 1840s, is due out from Guernica Editions on 1 September 2025.
