Tim Bowler
Tim Bowler is one of the UK’s most compelling and original writers for teenagers. Tim was born and brought up in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, the setting of his first novel, Midget. On leaving school he studied Swedish and Scandinavian Studies at East Anglia University, and lived for a while in Sweden. He then worked in a number of fields, including forestry and the timber trade, and spent seven years as a teacher. By the time he left teaching, Tim had become Head of Modern Languages at a school in Newton Abbot, Devon. He lives with his wife in a small village in Devon and his workroom is an old stone outhouse known to friends as ‘Tim’s Bolthole’.
Tim has written eighteen books and won fifteen awards, including the prestigious Carnegie Medal for River Boy, and his provocative BLADE series is hailed as a groundbreaking work of fiction. He has been described by the Sunday Telegraph as ‘the master of psychological thriller’ and by the Independent as ‘one of the truly individual voices in British teenage fiction’.
Find out more about Tim at www.timbowler.co.uk.