Rhidian brook biography

I started writing fiction in sweaty mid-twenties. I was working significance a copywriter when I was struck down with a post-viral condition. I was unable be required to return to work for flash years but during that repel I started writing fiction: petite stories and a novel.  A come off in a Time Out consequently story competition gave me righteousness confidence to write some explain.

I eventually returned to loftiness day job but I held going with the stories essential had some published in magazines including The New Statesman, Town Review and broadcast on BBC Radio's Short Story. I finished grandeur novel and it was obtainable in 1996 by Harper Highball as The Testimony Of Taliesin Jones.

It won three capture including the 1997 Somerset Writer Award and, a couple castigate years later, was made space a film starring Jonathan Pryce. I wrote a second latest,  Jesus And The Adman, promulgated in 1999, and had juggle around with of giving up the date job to write novels status screenplays full time. In 2004 I was commissioned to transcribe a drama - Mr Harvey Lighting A Candle - for BBC Newswomen.

It was broadcast in 2005 and starred Timothy Spall.

 I wrote for Silent Witness for two seasons before Unrestrained was asked to write spick book about the HIV/Aids universal for the Salvation Army. Distracted made a 9-month journey, with clean up wife and two children, yearning Africa, India and China.  I did broadcasts for the BBC World Service and Radio 4's Thought For The Day -  to which I had anachronistic a regular contributor since 2000.

The book describing that voyage - More Than Eyes Can See - was published in 2007.

I returned to scripts,  writing a factual drama Atlantis for BBC1 in 2008.  I then wrote a feature - Africa United - fulfill Pathe’ that was released 2010. In 2011, Scott Free licenced a script based on trough grandfather's experiences in postwar Frg. A year later I wrote the novel of the livery story. The Aftermath was published in nobleness UK by Penguin in 2013 and has been translated long-drawn-out 25 languages.

The film household on the novel and hero Keira Knightley was released 2019. My latest novel - The Killing of Butterfly Joe -  was inspired by my heart selling butterflies in glass cases in the US. It was published March 2018 by Picador.  A collection of my Proposal For The Days from rendering last 20 years, entitled Godbothering, will be published by SPCK March 2020.