Mr Tim Leach

Teaching Focus: Fiction

Associate Professor

Warwick Writing Programme

School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures

Location: FAB 2.52

Tim Leach is writer of historical fiction, specialising in the ancient world, unreliable source texts, and the crossover points between myth and history. His first novel, The Last King of Lydia, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2013. A sequel, The King and the Slave, followed in 2014. Smile of the Wolf was published in Summer 2018, and a trilogy of books (A Winter War, The Iron Way, and The Hollow Throne) were published from 2021-2023.

He is a graduate of the Warwick Writing Programme, where he now teaches fiction as an Associate Professor.

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• Last King of Lydia
• The King and the Slave
• Smile of the Wolf
• A Winter War
• The Iron Way
• The Hollow Throne

Research Interests

The ancient and medieval world, unreliable source texts, intersection of myth and history, the tradition of storytelling, oral history.

• The Last King of Lydia, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2013
• A Winter War was shortlisted for the HWA Gold Crown in 2022.

Further information on Tim can found here: https://www.tim-leach.co.uk