Who is Brian Templeton?

Brian Templeton—known affectionately as "Temps"—is a writer, truth-seeker, and former owner of Jammin, a Jamaican vegan restaurant and cultural hub in Costa Rica. Born in Reading, England, to Jamaican parents, he has lived in Spain, Costa Rica, and Ghana, shaping his unique perspective on culture, identity, and the human experience.

I didn't set out to be a writer. If you'd asked the younger version of me—the boy racing around the block with his brothers in Reading, or the young man packing fruit in a warehouse in Holland, or the one cooking jackfruit curry in a jungle kitchen in Costa Rica—writing would've felt like a distant thing. A quiet thing. And my life, back then, was full of noise.

But something kept calling. It wasn't a voice. It was a knowing. That underneath the places, the struggles, and the names I wore and shed, there was something deeper trying to be remembered. Not who I was, but what I was before I thought I had to be anyone at all.

The fire in me came from rebellion. The silence in me came from surrender. And the long road home isn't really a road at all; it's a vanishing point. A return to where we never truly left.

What Makes My Work Different

My books are rooted in real life, not spiritual trends. They come from lived experience, avoid "guru" posturing, and don't offer quick fixes. I blend inner growth with social reality, speak honestly about struggle, and present transformation as an ongoing journey—making my work authentic, grounded, and deeply human.

My books aren't about being Jamaican, or British, or vegan, or spiritual. They're about peeling it all back. Letting it fall away. Until what's left is still. Real. Unshaped.