Redbeck Publications

About Martin Redbeck

I’ve spent sixty years with animals, many of those years working with rabbits: rescue, breeding, exhibiting, and serving as a trustee with the RSPCA. I care little for rabbit politics, but I’m adamant about animal welfare.

I know how they think, how they move, how they survive. That knowledge went into every page of this book and into the non-fiction books I’ve written about rabbits, all told from a grounded Yorkshire point of view. For those that know me, I’m not very apologetic about following prescribed ideologies. Welfare is first, and human beliefs come second.

I’m not a writer who decided to write about rabbits. I’m someone who knows rabbits who decided the stories needed telling, properly, without the sentimentality or the biological nonsense that fills most rabbit fiction.

Memory in the Wire is my first published fiction novel. Is it really fiction? That’s for you to decide.

I’ve got more stories to tell, some about rabbits, some about people who process the world differently, all of them refusing to smooth over the hard edges for comfort’s sake. My long suffering wife Claudia’s grounded approach keeps me from descending into full on old man rants about people’s misconceptions about animals they call pets. Most of the time.

I write from West Yorkshire, where I live with too many animals all with stories to tell and not enough hours in the day.