Ian Lawton

Ian Lawton was born in 1959. After gaining a degree in Economics from UCL and qualifying as a chartered accountant, he sold computer software for several years before, in the late eighties, helping to found a business and IT consultancy company. Throughout this period he spent most of his spare time racing motorcycles and then cars.

Then, in his mid-thirties he forsook the commercial world to become a full-time writer-researcher specialising in ancient history, esoterica and spiritual philosophy.

His first two books, Giza: The Truth (1999) and Genesis Unveiled (2003), were published by Virgin and have sold over 30,000 copies worldwide.

In his third, The Book of the Soul (2004), he first developed the idea of 'Rational Spirituality', in addition to establishing himself as one of the world's leading authorities on the interlife. This was followed by The Wisdom of the Soul (2007) and The Little Book of the Soul (2007).

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