Brettell Hone was born in Malawi and educated in Zimbabwe.

An advocate by training, Brettell has worked with words in legal, corporate and training environments in Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa, where he has always had the good fortune to be in close proximity to the African bushveld.

My African Bedtime Rhymes is the first of his African animal rhymes.

Brettell has also published a play, Philemon, which won The 2004 Drama Circle Playwriting Contest in the USA.