Rhidian brook biography of donald

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.

Rhidian Brook took his family on an epic journey through Aids-torn Africa.

"The Aftermath" is a brilliant novel by Rhidian Brook and tells of a little known time in German history.

Rhidian Brook is a novelist and screenwriter.

The Testimony of Talieson Jones is a lyrical and acutely perceptive coming-of-age tale about faith, doubt and growing up, from Rhidian Brook, the accalimed.

American Dreaming (Today's Thought for the Day) Good Morning, Years ago, I had a job selling butterflies in glass cases in America.

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.

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