Tim Willocks is a British

physician A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the Medical education, study, Med ...

and

novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living wage, living writing novels and other fiction, while other ...

(Born 27 October 1957) in

Stalybridge Stalybridge () is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. At the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census, it had a population of 26,830. Historic counties of England, Historically divided between Cheshire and Lancashire, it is east o ...

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, 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 Addiction is a neuropsychological disorder characterized by a persistent and intense urge to use a drug or engage in a behavior that produces natural reward, despite substantial harm and other negative consequences. Repetitive drug use can ...

. Willocks holds a second dan black belt in

Shotokan karate is a style of karate, developed from various martial arts by Gichin Funakoshi (1868–1957) and his son Gigo (Yoshitaka) Funakoshi (1906–1945). Gichin Funakoshi was born in Okinawa and is widely credited with popularizing "karate do" thr ...

Career

His 1991 novel ''Bad City Blues'' was adapted for the screen in 1999 in a movie starring

Dennis Hopper Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was an American actor, filmmaker, photographer and visual artist. He was considered one of the key figures of New Hollywood. He earned prizes from the Cannes Film Festival and Venice Internatio ...

. Willocks also wrote the

Steven Spielberg Steven Allan Spielberg ( ; born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, Spielberg is widely regarded as one of the greatest film directors of all time and is ...

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 Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, ; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Poles in the United Kingdom#19th century, Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the Eng ...

. 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 A prison riot is an act of concerted defiance or disorder by a group of prisoners against the prison administrators, prison officers, or other groups of prisoners. Academic studies of prison riots emphasize a connection between prison conditions ...

from the perspective of a short stint inmate about to be paroled *''Bloodstained Kings'' (1996) *'' Doglands'' (2011) *''Memo from Turner'' (2018)

Mattias Tannhauser trilogy

# ''The Religion'' (2006) # ''Twelve Children of Paris'' (2013)

References

External links

Official Website of Tim Willocks
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