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Mike Dash, the author of Tulipomania, Batavia's Graveyard, Thug, Satan's Circus and now The First Family, was born just outside London back in 1963. Emigrating with his Welsh expat family to Germany at the age of 9, he was educated at Gatow School, Berlin, Wells Cathedral School, Somerset, and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he read history and ran the Cambridge student magazine. From there he moved on to King's College, London, where in 1990 he finally completed a particularly obscure PhD thesis, entitled British Submarine Policy 1853–1918, that has been little read. By the time he was 27, Mike had thus endured a peripatetic existence that took him from Wheathampstead (Herts) to Berlin, Wells, Zurich, Paris, Cannes, King's Lynn, Cambridge, Hertford, Windsor, Watford, Wantage (Oxon) and Hungerford (Berks). These early travels have, however, made him unusually easy to book onto regional radio stations as a 'local author.'