Tim Willocks is a British physician and novelist (Born 27 October 1957) in

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

Career

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

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. Willocks also wrote the

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documentary ''The Unfinished Journey''. Willocks wrote the screenplay for the film ''

Swept from the Sea ''Swept from the Sea'' (known as ''Amy Foster'' in the UK) is a 1997 drama film directed by Beeban Kidron and starring Vincent Perez, Rachel Weisz, and Ian McKellen. Based on the 1901 short story "Amy Foster" by Joseph Conrad, the film is about a d ...

'' (1997) based on the 1903 novel '' Amy Foster'' by

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. 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 ''Doglands'' (2011) is a children's fantasy novel written by Tim Willocks. It was published by the Random House imprint Random House Books for Young Readers. It is written in the first-person point of view of the main character, a lurcher nam ...

'' (2011) *''Memo from Turner'' (2018)

Mattias Tannhauser trilogy

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

External links

Official Website of Tim Willocks
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References

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