Jim Parton is the author of several books, including Unreasonable Behaviour, The Buck Stops Here and Playing Footsie. He also wrote a book with the pop star Robbie Williams

Robbie Williams

Robert Peter "Robbie" Williams is an English singer-songwriter, vocal coach and occasional actor. He is a member of the pop group Take That. Williams rose to fame in the band's first run in the early- to mid-1990s. After many disagreements with the management and certain group members, Williams...

, entitled 'Let Me Entertain You.'

He used to be a fathers' rights

Fathers' rights

The fathers' rights movement is a movement whose members are primarily interested in issues related to family law, including child custody and child support that affect fathers and their children. Many of its members are fathers who desire to share the parenting of their children equally with their...

 activist and was chairman of FNF for five years and later editor of the charity's newsletter, McKenzie. Jim was a frequent spokesperson on family law issues in the UK media http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4230653.stm.

He now lives in Southern Poland where he is restoring a seventeenth century former bishop's palace with his wife at Piotrowice Nyskie

Piotrowice Nyskie

Piotrowice Nyskie is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Otmuchów, within Nysa County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, close to the Czech border...

, near Nysa

Nysa, Poland

Nysa is a town in southwestern Poland on the Nysa Kłodzka river with 47,545 inhabitants , situated in the Opole Voivodeship. It is the capital of Nysa County. It comprises the urban portion of the surrounding Gmina Nysa, a mixed urban-rural commune with a total population of 60,123 inhabitants...

. He writes occasionally on the internet and for the press.

Further reading

• Jim Parton (2009) The Bucks Stop Here: Money talks and mine said 'goodbye' . Harriman House. ISBN 978-1905641-00-0