Natascha Biebow
Alison Branagan
Tim Bowler
Barry Cunningham
Lindsey Gardiner
Candy Gourlay
Miriam Halahmy
Layn Marlow
Geraldine McCaughrean
Sarah McIntyre
Anne Marie Perks
Lee Weatherly
Chris Wormell
Editors Panel
Jonathan Lambert/Templar
Lizzie Spratt/Walker Books
Annie Eaton/Random House
Art Directors/Editors Panel
Jo Spooner/Macmillan
Val Braithwaite/Bloomsbury
Ben Sharpe/DFC Comics
November 22 to 23, 2008
West Downs Campus
University of Winchester SO22 4NR
Tim Bowler is the author of several prize-winning books for children, teenagers and young adults. He has won fourteen awards, including the Carnegie Medal, the pre-eminent UK award for Children's Literature. His novels have been described as psychological, mystical and philosophical adventure thrillers. He was born in Leigh-on-Sea, and studied Swedish and Scandinavian studies at the University of East Anglia in Norwich , undertaking a variety of jobs before becoming a full-time writer in 1994.
His first published novel was Midget (1994), a psychological thriller set in Leigh-on-Sea. This has been followed by several other novels: Dragon's Rock (1995), a thriller set in Devon; River Boy (1997), a story about love and bereavement and winner of the Carnegie Medal; Shadows (1999), a gritty love story; Storm Catchers (2001), a kidnap thriller; Starseeker (2002), a mystical exploration of love, loss and music, also made into a play; Apocalypse (2004), an allegory about the future of mankind, and Frozen Fire (2006), a philosophical thriller about the nature of reality.
He is also the author of two shorter illustrated ghost stories, Blood on Snow (2004) and Walking with the Dead (2005), together forming Tales from the Dark Side. In 2005 he also contributed a short story to Higher Ground , stories of children who survived the 2004 tsunami.
His most recent works are Books 1 and 2 of his urban thriller series Blade (published in March 08), and his new novel Bloodchild , a story about memory, secrets and betrayal (publication September 2008).
Tim Bowler also speaks at conferences, schools, book festivals etc., averaging about fifty events a year. He is also a regular book reviewer on BBC Radio Five Live. He lives in a village in Devon and writes in a small stone outhouse half a mile from his home and known to the locals as "Tim's Bolthole".
Tim has been described by the Sunday Telegraph as 'the master of the psychological thriller' and by the Independent as 'one of the truly individual voices in British teenage fiction'.
Genres (in alphabetical order)
Children / Teenage / Young Adult
Bibliography
Midget Oxford University Press, 1994
Dragon's Rock Oxford University Press, 1995
River Boy Oxford University Press, 1997
Shadows Oxford University Press, 1999
Storm Catchers Oxford University Press, 2001
Starseeker Oxford University Press, 2002
Apocalypse Oxford University Press, 2004
Blood on Snow (illustrated by Jason Cockroft) Hoddern Children's Books, 2004
Higher Ground (contributor) Chrysalis Children's Books, 2005
Walking with the Dead (illustrated by Jason Cockroft) Hodder Children's Books, 2005
Frozen Fire Oxford University Press, 2006
Blade: Playing Dead Oxford University Press, 2008
Blade: Closing In Oxford University Press, 2008
Bloodchild Oxford University Press, 2008
Prizes and awards
1995 Boekenwelp Award ( Belgium ) Midget
1995 New York Library Book of the Teen Age (US) Midget
1997 Carnegie Medal River Boy
1999 Angus Book Award River Boy
2000 Angus Book Award Shadows
2000 Lancashire County Library Children's Book of the Year Award Shadows
2002 South Lanarkshire Book Award Storm Catchers
2002 Stockton Libraries Award Storm Catchers
2002 Stockport Schools' Book Award Storm Catchers
2007 Hull Book Award Frozen Fire
2007 Highland Book Award Frozen Fire
2007 Redbridge Book Award Frozen Fire
2007 Stockport Schools Book Award Frozen Fire
2008 South Lanarkshire Children's Book Award Frozen Fire
website: www.timbowler.com