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 Born in 1956, Tim Pears grew up in Devon, left school at sixteen and worked in a wide variety of jobs: librarian, building labourer, nurse in a mental hospital, pianist's bodyguard, painter and decorator, sorter of mail, video maker, college night porter, art gallery manager, and others.
His first novel, In the Place of Fallen Leaves, was published in 1993. It was awarded the Hawthornden Prize and the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award.
In 1993 Tim Pears graduated from the Direction course at the National Film and Television School. He wrote the script for a feature film, Loop, released in 1999. In 1996 Tim received a Lannan Award, in America.
© Duncan Maxwell
His second novel, In a Land of Plenty, was published in 1997. It was also made into a ten part drama series for the BBC by Sterling Pictures (with TalkBack Productions) and broadcast in 2001.
A Revolution of the Sun was published by Doubleday in 2000.
Wake Up was published by Bloomsbury in 2002.
Tim Pears was Writer in Residence at Cheltenham Festival of Literature 2002-03. He has taught a good deal of creative writing, including a number of Arvon Foundation residential courses and at Ruskin College, Oxford. From September 2006 he was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow, at Oxford Brookes University.
Blenheim Orchard is published by Bloomsbury in 2007.
He lives in Oxford with his wife, children, and odd animals.
Tim in the library, Exeter Express & Echo, 1975
On location, 1990, National Film and Television School
Greta Stoddart, Craig Weston, Across the Valley, 1991
On location, Woman of the Sea, 1992, NFTS
Melee Hutton, Woman of the Sea, 1992, NFTS
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