About Tim Lott
I’m Tim Lott, journalist, novelist, and writing mentor.
I have been writing novels since my first fiction work White City Blue was published in 1999. It won the Whitbread First Novel Prize. I was 43 years old so I had paid my dues (and in my view, if you want to be a novelist, you have to pay your dues. )
My first published book was a memoir, The Scent of Dried Roses (1996) which won the PEN prize for autobiography and is now a Penguin Modern Classic.
I’ve now got ten novels under my belt.