Tim Pears ~ Author of In the Place of Fallen Leaves, In a Land of Plenty, A Revolution of the Sun, Wake Up and Blenheim Orchard.

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Tim Pears

Tim Pears is the author of seven novels: In the Place of Fallen Leaves (which won the Hawthornden Prize and the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award), Blenheim Orchard, In a Land of Plenty, A Revolution of the Sun, Wake Up, Landed (shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2012 and the 2011 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, winner of the MJA Open Book Awards 2011) and Disputed Land.

In a Land of Plenty was made into a ten-part BBC TV series. Tim Pears has also received the Lannan Award in the USA. He lives in Oxford.

Disputed Land

If a single family cannot solve the problem of what it bequeaths to future generations, then what chance does a whole society have of leaving the world intact?

‘Beautifully understated...A low-key family gathering in the Welsh Marches blossoms into an elegiac meditation on our relationship with the land we inhabit.’ Sunday Telegraph, Books of the Year