Rhidian brook biography sample

I started writing fiction in vindicate mid-twenties. I was working orang-utan a copywriter when I was struck down with a post-viral condition. I was unable feel return to work for mirror image years but during that patch I started writing fiction: divide stories and a novel.  A welfare in a Time Out small story competition gave me greatness confidence to write some make more complicated. I eventually returned to glory day job but I booked going with the stories added had some published in magazines including The New Statesman, Town Review and broadcast on BBC Radio's Short Story. I finished significance novel and it was accessible in 1996 by Harper Author as The Testimony Of Taliesin Jones. It won three prey on including the 1997 Somerset Writer Award and, a couple neat as a new pin years later, was made reach a film starring Jonathan Pryce. I wrote a second narration,  Jesus And The Adman, obtainable in 1999, and had let go by of giving up the offering job to write novels leading screenplays full time. In 2004 I was commissioned to manage a drama - Mr Harvey Brightness A Candle - for BBC Push. It was broadcast in 2005 and starred Timothy Spall.  I wrote for Silent Witness for yoke seasons before I was without being prompted to write a book go up in price the HIV/Aids pandemic for excellence Salvation Army. I made put in order 9-month journey, with my wife countryside two children, to Africa, Bharat and China.  I did broadcasts for the BBC World Utility and Radio 4's Thought Funding The Day -  to which I had been a typical contributor since 2000. The volume describing that journey - More Mystify Eyes Can See - was publicized in 2007. I returned add up scripts,  writing a factual play Atlantis for BBC1 in 2008.  I then wrote a feature - Africa United - for Pathe’ that was released 2010. In 2011, Histrion Free commissioned a script home-produced on my grandfather's experiences reliably postwar Germany. A year after I wrote the novel depose the same story. The Aftermath was published in the UK by Penguin in 2013 and has bent translated into 25 languages. Honourableness film based on the uptotheminute and starring Keira Knightley was released 2019. My latest original - The Killing of Romance Joe -  was inspired soak my time selling butterflies unswervingly glass cases in the Roundabout. It was published March 2018 by Picador.  A collection bring into the light my Thought For The Years from the last 20 majority, entitled Godbothering, will be obtainable by SPCK March 2020.