Tim Bowler


Tim Bowler is an author of books for teenagers and young adults. He won the 1997 Carnegie Medal from the CILIP, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject, for the novel River Boy.
The Sunday Telegraph has called him "the master of the psychological thriller" and The Independent "one of the truly individual voices in voices in British teenage fiction".
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Biography

Bowler was born in Leigh-on-Sea, and educated at the University of East Anglia where he studied Swedish and Scandinavian studies.
His first published novel was Midget, a psychological thriller set in Leigh-on-Sea. This has been followed by several other novels: Dragon's Rock, a thriller set in Devon; River Boy, a story about love and bereavement and winner of the Carnegie Medal; Shadows, a love story; Storm Catchers, a kidnap thriller; Starseeker, an exploration of love, loss and music, also made into a play; Apocalypse, an allegory about the future of mankind; Frozen Fire, a philosophical thriller about the nature of reality; Bloodchild, a story about memory, secrets and betrayal; Buried Thunder, a dark psychological thriller; and Sea of Whispers, a haunting and mysterious story set on the remote island of Mora.
Blade is a series of urban thrillers. Reviewing it for The Bookbag, Jill Murphy wrote, "Nobody in children's writing is producing anything like this. It's electrifying." Some editions in translation are four books, each comprising two original volumes.
Bowler speaks at conferences, schools, and book festivals and makes regular appearances on radio. He lives in a village in Devon and writes in a small stone outhouse.

Awards

1995 Midget won the Boekenwelp Award 1995 Midget won the New York Library Book of the Teen Age 1997 River Boy won the Carnegie Medal1999 River Boy won the Angus Book Award2000 Shadows won the Angus Book Award2000 Shadows won the Lancashire [Children's Book of the Year]2002 Storm Catchers won the South Lanarkshire Book Award2002 Storm Catchers won the Stockton Libraries Award2002 Storm Catchers won the Stockport Schools' Book Award2007 Frozen Fire won the Hull Book Award2007 Frozen Fire won the Highland Book Award2007 Frozen Fire won the Redbridge Book Award2007 Frozen Fire won the Stockport Schools Book Award2008 Frozen Fire won the South Lanarkshire Children's Book Award2009 Frozen Fire won the Southern Schools Book Award