Andrew K. Lawston writes quirky comedy fiction over a variety of genres. His writing is infused with the kind of worldview that comes from watching a lot of French cinema and Doctor Who (not necessarily in that order), and reading a lot of Pratchett, Dickens and Shakespeare.

His best-known series is Detective Daintypaws - the adventures of a crime-solving cat in the south west London suburb of Barnes. Detective Daintypaws is unashamedly modelled on his own cat Buscemi, who passed away at the venerable age of 19 and a half in September 2024. The Detective Daintypaws series concluded in February 2026, as it proved too painful to write about such an extraordinary cat after she'd gone.

With a degree in French, Andrew also translates classic French books, most notably Casanova's account of his escape from Venice prison in 1755, and the Chantecoq series of pulp detective novels by Arthur Bernède.

Andrew is also a theatre reviewer and occasional playwright. His play Matrexit was a finalist in the Arts Richmond New Plays Festival in 2018, and Guess Who's Computing To Dinner won a Metatra play-writing contest in 2025, and was performed as part of the Meteatra production Borders at the Arcola Theatre in February 2026.

He lives in London with a lovely wife and a hamster who has his own little hamster car.