Novelist Tim Lott read Politics and History at the London School of Economics. He has worked as a broadcaster, magazine editor and television producer.
His award-winning memoir, The Scent of Dried Roses, was published by Viking in 1996. White City Blue won the 1999 Whitbread First Novel Award. Rumours of a Hurricane was published in February 2002.
His latest novel, The Love Secrets of Don Juan, was published in March 2003.