Tim Bowler
| Titles: | Apocalypse, Blade: Closing In, Blade: Mixing It, Blade: Playing Dead, Bloodchild, Buried Thunder, Frozen Fire, River Boy, Starseeker |
| Category: | Children's |
| Agent: | Caroline Walsh |
| Nicky Lund | |
| www.timbowler.co.uk |
Tim Bowler was born and brought up in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, and on leaving school read Swedish and Scandinavian Studies at the University of East Anglia. In 1990, Tim left teaching to become a full-time freelance translator and writer and truly grabbed the attention of the children's publishing world in 1998 when he won the prestigious Carnegie Medal with his third novel, River Boy.
Since then Tim has gone from strength to strength, winning both the Angus Book Award and the Lancashire Libraries Children's Book Award for his fourth novel, Shadows. He has also won the South Lanarkshire Book Award and the Stockton Libraries Award with his fifth novel, Storm Catchers.
Tim's writing is beautifully lyrical, yet he is also able to create tense, action-packed thrillers. Both of these styles are combined in his sixth novel, Starseeker, which has been adapted for the stage. Published in 2006, Frozen Fire won six awards and 2008 saw the launch of The Blade series, a sequence of eight shorter novels about a boy on the run. His latest novel, Sea of Whispers, is due out in 2012.
Tim lives in Devon.
