Lott, Tim

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 daughte...