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Iain Shipley

Author Iain Shipley official headshot portrait for The Fortitude Chronicles

Iain Shipley spent twenty years as a project manager before turning to fiction. A Test of Fortitude, his debut novel, is part The Fortitude Chronicles.

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His professional life has been spent in documentation and complex project management—a training in precision that shapes his fiction: medical detail rendered accurately, procedure treated with respect, and emotion earned rather than announced. Years of navigating healthcare systems, and of watching NHS professionals at work, inform the authenticity of the wards and corridors of A Test of Fortitude.

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A Test of Fortitude forms part of a planned series tracing how fortitude passes through a family—across three generations, two continents, and seventy-five years.

 

The Price of Fortitude follows in 2027.

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Iain lives in London.

​​"I'm already looking forward to book 2"

—MacDonald, Amazon reviewer, United Kingdom

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