Rhidian brook biography of abraham
For twenty years, bestselling novelist Rhidian Brook has pondered such questions on Radio 4's Thought for the Day. of his thoughts have been recently.!
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.
Rhidian Brook is originally from Wales.
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.
The Lord spoke to Abraham when he sent him from Ur to Canaan and made far-reaching promises which mark the beginning of the history of salvation.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