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Pears, Tim

Tim Pears is the author of eleven novels, most recently the West Country Trilogy (2017–19) and the collection Chemistry and Other Stories (2021). He also loves writing about sport and politics. You can hear Tim Pears talking about his own novels on our podcast, Episode 19, ‘Tim Pears’s West Country’.

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Looking Horror in the Eye

Tim Pears on Konstantin Paustovsky, The Story of a Life

My father was a country priest, a bookish intellectual hidden in a Devon valley on the edge of Dartmoor. He was something of a Russophile, and among the books that lined the walls of his study was a section of Russian literature. I left school at 16, much to his bemusement, and in between odd bouts of employment and moping around like a teenage Oblomov I read through the canon of nineteenth-century Russian novels – they became my nourishment, my writer’s seedbed.
20200515095519 Foxed Pod Episode 19 | Tim Pears’s West Country

Episode 19: Tim Pears’s West Country

The Slightly Foxed Podcast

Tim Pears, a writer rooted in the landscape of Devon, takes Slightly Foxed to the West Country. From working at his local library and reading an author a week instead of taking his A Levels to winning the Hawthornden Prize for his first novel, by way of spells as a farm labourer, nursing assistant and night porter, Tim Pears has written eleven novels, watched blacksmiths at work, walked the routes of his characters, balanced research with imagination and chronicled the past as a realist rather than a romantic. We also travel through the magazine’s archives, along the rivers Taw and Torridge, to uncover the man behind Tarka the Otter, and there are the usual recommendations for reading off the beaten track.

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