Tim Pears

Tim Pears was born in 1956, grew up in Devon, and at just sixteen years old, left school and started working. He held several minor jobs before beginning his studies at the National Film and Television School. Tim Pears has written five novels, including In the Place of Fallen Leaves, which won the Hawthornden Prize and the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award, In the Land of Plenty, which was adapted into a ten-episode drama series for the BBC (broadcast on RTP), and Blenheim Orchard. He has been Writer-in-Residence at the Cheltenham Festival of Literature, and a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Oxford Brookes University, and has taught creative writing at Ruskin College and elsewhere. Tim Pears lives in Oxford with his wife and children.