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Tim Willocks

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Occupation
  
writer

Signature
  

Movies
  
Swept from the Sea, Sin

Genre
  
Thriller

Education
  
UCL Medical School

Nationality
  
British

Role
  
Physician

Language
  
English

Name
  
Tim Willocks


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Born
  
Timothy Willocks October 27, 1957 (age 66) Stalybridge, Cheshire, England (
1957-10-27
)

Books
  
The Religion, Doglands, The Twelve Children of Paris, Green River Rising, Bad City Blues

Similar People
  
Beeban Kidron, Michael Stevens, Joseph Conrad

The Religion by Tim Willocks--Audiobook Excerpt


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. Willocks holds a second dan black belt in Shotokan karate.

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Career

His 1991 novel Bad City Blues was adapted for the screen in 1999 in a movie starring Dennis Hopper. Willocks also wrote the Steven Spielberg documentary The Unfinished Journey.

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

  • 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)
  • Mattias Tannhauser trilogy

    1. The Religion (2006)
    2. Twelve Children of Paris (2013)

    References

    Tim Willocks Wikipedia