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TALLERMAN, David
David Tallerman was born and raised in the northeast of England. A long and confused period of education ended with an MA dissertation on the literary history of seventeenth century witchcraft that somehow incorporated references to both Kate Bush and H P Lovecraft.
Needless to say, this didn’t have a great impact on subsequent jobs as a cucumber packer, telephone interviewer and civil servant, and it was only when he sidestepped into the world of computing that David’s study of the dark arts really began to pay off. He currently roams the UK as an itinerant IT Technician-for-hire, applying theories of animism and sympathetic magic to computer repair and taking devoted care of his bonsai tree familiar. Read the rest of this entry »
THEOBALD, John
John Owen Theobald is an author and researcher. Born and raised in Eastern Canada, he moved to the UK to study the poetry of Keats, and in 2009 received a PhD from the University of St. Andrews.
His first novel, THE DESERTERS’ ORCHESTRA tells the remarkable story of three Russian musicians who helped win a war. Set in 1941 Leningrad, this novel explores how they endured the deadliest siege in history and found themselves in the makeshift orchestra premiering Shostakovich’s defiant Seventh Symphony – broadcast across the city, the country, and directly into the trenches of the surrounding German soldiers. Read the rest of this entry »
TIDHAR, Lavie
Born on a kibbutz in Israel, Lavie Tidhar’s unusual childhood has inspired a life devoted in equal parts to books and to travelling. ‘I was afraid I’d end up one of those people with an inherently boring life,’ he said, ‘so I set out to make it more interesting.’
Lavie has lived and travelled in Southern Africa for years and is a keen player of the ancient game of Bao. He’s since spent nearly a decade living in London before setting off again. He spent a year living in a bamboo shack on a remote island in the South Pacific – “I still miss the volcanoes, sometimes,” he said – and two years in South East Asia, followed by a couple of years back in Israel. He is now back living in London, a city he finds endlessly captivating.
Lavie is a prolific writer, keeping up a steady stream of highly-regarded novels, novellas and short stories. He has been described as an ‘emerging master’ by LOCUS Magazine, with his work compared to the late, great Philip K. Dick’s in both the Guardian and the Financial Times. His novels include the Bookman Histories trilogy of steampunk novels – comprising The Bookman (2010), Camera Obscura (2011), and The Great Game (2012) – which borrow equally from mythology, classic literature, pulp fiction and noir and kung-fu cinema – and the ground-breaking alternative history novel Osama (2011), shortlisted for the BSFA Award. Read the rest of this entry »
TREGILLIS, Ian
United Kingdom, British Commonwealth and Translation only: Represented in these territories on behalf of Kay McCauley at Pimlico/Aureous Inc, NY.
Ian Tregillis was born and raised in the United States, where his parents had settled after fleeing the wrath of a Flemish prince. (The full story involves a stolen horse, or so he’s been told.) He attended the University of Minnesota, where he received a Ph.D. in physics for his research on radio galaxies and quasars. After finishing his thesis, he moved to the American Southwest just as soon as he found a group of people willing to hire him. He’s still a bit surprised by this because he has no useful skills.