Timothy Phillips

Timothy Phillips was born and grew up in Northern Ireland. He
studied at the universities of Oxford and Helsinki and has travelled widely
in the former Soviet Union, including the Caucasus. In 2005 he completed a
doctoral thesis on the role of the holiday resort in Russian culture,
particularly in the Caucasus. He has worked extensively as a translator
and was the principal translator for the BBC on their Beslan documentaries.
This is his first book.