Simon Michael 'Author of the Charles Holborne series' Legal Historical crime thrillers Britain's very own "John Grisham". 5 May 2026 7 Things I want my readers to know about me Simon Michael 1. I hate social media. If I could un-invent it I would. I might bin the Internet at the same time. I know, I know, it's given voices to individuals who were previously voiceless. It's allowed isolated people to find one another. It has democratised knowledge. But it has facilitated trolls, cyber bullies, criminals and those peddling disinformation and hatred. It supercharges the worst instincts of humans.