# Tim Willocks

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**Tim Willocks** is a British [physician](/source/Physician) and [novelist](/source/Novelist) (Born 27 October 1957) in [Stalybridge](/source/Stalybridge), [Cheshire](/source/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](/source/Drug_addiction).[1] Willocks holds a second dan black belt in [Shotokan karate](/source/Shotokan_karate).[2]

## Career

His 1991 novel *Bad City Blues* was adapted for the screen in 1999 in a movie starring [Dennis Hopper](/source/Dennis_Hopper).[3] Willocks also wrote the [Steven Spielberg](/source/Steven_Spielberg) documentary *The Unfinished Journey*.[4]

Willocks wrote the screenplay for the film *[Swept from the Sea](/source/Swept_from_the_Sea)* (1997) based on the 1903 novel *[Amy Foster](/source/Amy_Foster_(short_story))* by [Joseph Conrad](/source/Joseph_Conrad).

The novel *The Religion* (2006) is set in 1565 during the [Grand Siege of Malta](/source/Siege_of_Malta_(1565)) 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](/source/Prison_riot) from the perspective of a short stint inmate about to be paroled
- *Bloodstained Kings* (1996)
- *[Doglands](/source/Doglands)* (2011)
- *Memo from Turner* (2018)

### Mattias Tannhauser trilogy

1. *The Religion* (2006)
1. *Twelve Children of Paris* (2013)[5]

## References

1. ["Land of Pope and glory"](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/tim-willocks-land-of-pope-and-glory-410415.html). *The Independent*. 4 August 2006. [Archived](https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/tim-willocks-land-of-pope-and-glory-410415.html) 7 May 2022 at the Wayback Machine.

1. ["Tim Willocks at the AM Heath Literary Agency"](https://web.archive.org/web/20150721143832/http://www.amheath.com/author?id=459). Archived from [the original](http://www.amheath.com/author?id=459) on 2015-07-21.

1. ["Bad city blues at IMDB"](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181301). imdb.com. 28 January 2010.

1. ["American journey"](https://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/?fuseaction=composition&composition_id=2869). www.kennedy-center.org. 28 January 2010. Retrieved 8 August 2012.

1. ["Twelve Children of Paris"](http://www.circulo.es/Noticias/198076ID.aspx?tipo=INICIO&volver=/Noticias/Default.aspx). 2010-01-03.

## External links

- [Official Website of Tim Willocks](http://www.timwillocks.com)
- [Tim Willocks](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0932569/) at IMDb
- ["An interview with Tim Willocks"](http://www.bookslut.com/features/2007_03_010886.php). Bookslut. April 2007. Retrieved 13 April 2007.

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