Tim Lott

Tim Lott is a novelist, broadcaster and journalist. Born in 1956, he grew up in West London and joined his local paper as a reporter when he was 18 years old. Later, he became a music journalist, a publisher and TV producer before becoming an author at the age of 40. His first book, a memoir, 'The Scent of Dried Roses', published in 1996, is now a Penguin Modern Classic. His first novel 'White City Blue' won the Whitbread First Novel award. In all he has published nine books, among them children's fiction and non-fiction. His latest book is on the subject of Zen philosophy. He has four daughters, and has been married twice. He currently lives in North West London and teaches novel writing at the Faber Academy in Bloomsbury.