Tim Willocks
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Dr. Timothy Willocks | |
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| File:00 Timothy Willocks.jpg Tim Willocks in Warsaw (2009) | |
| Born | Timothy Willocks 27 October 1957 Stalybridge, Cheshire, England |
| Education | UCL Medical School |
| Occupation | writer |
| Website | www |
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| Tim Willocks | |
Tim Willocks is a British physician and novelist (Born 27 October 1957) in Stalybridge, Cheshire, England. Willocks studied medicine at the University College Hospital Medical School and has worked for some years on the rehabilitation of sufferers of drug addiction.[1] Willocks holds a second dan black belt in Shotokan karate.[2]
Career
[edit | edit source]His 1991 novel Bad City Blues was adapted for the screen in 1999 in a movie starring Dennis Hopper.[3] Willocks also wrote the Steven Spielberg documentary The Unfinished Journey.[4]
Willocks wrote the screenplay for the film Swept from the Sea (1997) based on the 1903 novel Amy Foster by Joseph Conrad.
The novel The Religion (2006) is set in 1565 during the Grand Siege of Malta and is the first book of the Tannhauser Trilogy. The second part - Twelve Children of Paris - appeared in 2013.
Published work
[edit | edit source]- Bad City Blues (1991)
- Green River Rising (1995) - follows the progress of a fictional prison riot from the perspective of a short stint inmate about to be paroled
- Bloodstained Kings (1996)
- Doglands (2011)
- Memo from Turner (2018)
Mattias Tannhauser trilogy
[edit | edit source]- The Religion (2006)
- Twelve Children of Paris (2013)[5]
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Official Website of Tim Willocks
- Tim Willocks at IMDb
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- 20th-century British novelists
- 21st-century British novelists
- British historical novelists
- Writers of historical fiction set in the early modern period
- 21st-century British medical doctors
- Living people
- People from Stalybridge
- British male novelists
- 1957 births
- 20th-century British male writers
- 21st-century British male writers