John Byrnes has worked bars and doors in pubs and clubs all over Australia, on fishing trawlers out of Darwin, and served in the Australian Army. Eventually, John put on a tie and studied economics, working for the Sydney Futures Exchange, Deutsche Bank and in financial services until 2023. John started writing in 2015 and has a fascination with the darker aspects of the human condition; the addicted, the malevolent, the scarred. He cheers for the outsider, the slacker, the contrarian, the non-conformist. Born in Sydney, John now lives on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales with his wife and three children.

An engrossing historical fiction saga, The Youngest Son heralds the arrival of John Byrnes as our next epic storyteller.