Rhidian brook biography of williams

I started writing fiction in my mid-twenties. I was working as an advertising copywriter and writing short stories and a novel in my spare time.

 A success in the Time Out short story competition gave me the confidence to keep going with the fiction. I had several stories published in magazines including The New Statesman, Paris Review, and broadcast on BBC Radio's Short Story. My first novel was published in 1996 by Harper Collins as The Testimony Of Taliesin Jones.

It won three prizes including the 1997 Somerset Maugham Award and, a couple of years later, was made into a film starring Jonathan Pryce. I wrote a second novel,  Jesus And The Adman, published in 1999, and had thoughts of giving up the day job to write novels and screenplays full time.

Mainly staring out the window and making things up.

In 2004 I was commissioned to write a drama - Mr Harvey Lights A Candle - for BBC Television. It was broadcast in 2005 and starred Timothy Spall.  I wrote for Silent Witness for two seas