He attended local schools before reading English Literature at St Catherine's College, Oxford.
After university, he moved to London in 1974, where he worked for as a reporter for DC Thomson.
After eventually becoming an editor for several popular magazines, Harding went freelance in 1985 to pursue his ambition of becoming a novelist.
The book describes a man taking his father, who has advanced Parkinson's disease, on holiday to Malta.
[4] It was adapted for TV in 2006 starring Shane Ritchie and Roger Lloyd-Pack.