{{Short description|British physician and novelist}} {{Multiple issues| {{BLP sources|date=August 2024}} {{Unreliable sources|date=August 2024}} }} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Timothy Willocks | honorific_prefix = Dr. | honorific_suffix = | image = 00 Timothy Willocks.jpg | alt = | caption = Tim Willocks in Warsaw (2009) | other names = | birth_name = Timothy Willocks | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1957|10|27|df=y}} | birth_place = Stalybridge, Cheshire, England | occupation = writer | citizenship = | education = UCL Medical School | movement = | notable works = <!-- or: | notablework = --> | spouse = <!-- or: | spouses = --> | partner = <!-- or: | partners = --> | children = | relatives = | awards = | signature = Tw.jpg | signature_alt = Tim Willocks | years_active = | module = | website = {{URL|www.timwillocks.com}} }}
'''Tim Willocks''' is a British physician and novelist (Born 27 October 1957) in Stalybridge, Cheshire, England. Willocks studied medicine at the University College Hospital Medical School and has worked for some years on the rehabilitation of sufferers of drug addiction.<ref name="independent1">{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/tim-willocks-land-of-pope-and-glory-410415.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/tim-willocks-land-of-pope-and-glory-410415.html |archive-date=7 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Land of Pope and glory|date=4 August 2006|work=The Independent}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Willocks holds a second dan black belt in Shotokan karate.<ref name="AM Heath">{{cite web |url=http://www.amheath.com/author?id=459 |title=Tim Willocks at the AM Heath Literary Agency |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721143832/http://www.amheath.com/author?id=459 |archivedate=2015-07-21 }}</ref>
==Career== His 1991 novel ''Bad City Blues'' was adapted for the screen in 1999 in a movie starring Dennis Hopper.<ref name="imdb1">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181301|title=Bad city blues at IMDB|date=28 January 2010|publisher=imdb.com}}</ref> Willocks also wrote the Steven Spielberg documentary ''The Unfinished Journey''.<ref name="kennedy1">{{cite web|url=https://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/?fuseaction=composition&composition_id=2869|title=American journey|date=28 January 2010|accessdate=8 August 2012|publisher=www.kennedy-center.org}}</ref>
Willocks wrote the screenplay for the film ''Swept from the Sea'' (1997) based on the 1903 novel ''Amy Foster'' by Joseph Conrad.
The novel ''The Religion'' (2006) is set in 1565 during the Grand Siege of Malta and is the first book of the ''Tannhauser Trilogy''. The second part - ''Twelve Children of Paris'' - appeared in 2013.
==Published work== *''Bad City Blues'' (1991) *''Green River Rising'' (1995) - follows the progress of a fictional prison riot from the perspective of a short stint inmate about to be paroled *''Bloodstained Kings'' (1996) *''Doglands'' (2011) *''Memo from Turner'' (2018)
===Mattias Tannhauser trilogy=== # ''The Religion'' (2006) # ''Twelve Children of Paris'' (2013)<ref name="circulo">{{cite web | url=http://www.circulo.es/Noticias/198076ID.aspx?tipo=INICIO&volver=/Noticias/Default.aspx | title= Twelve Children of Paris| date=2010-01-03}}</ref>
==References== <references/>
==External links== *[http://www.timwillocks.com Official Website of Tim Willocks] *{{IMDb name|0932569}} *{{cite news|title=An interview with Tim Willocks|date=April 2007|publisher=Bookslut|url=http://www.bookslut.com/features/2007_03_010886.php|accessdate=13 April 2007}}
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