While Tim Butcher’s works are generally classified as travel works, they are more of a combination of exploration, reportage, and travel. He has been writing for a wide range of international publications and for nearly two decades, he worked as a staff writer for the “Daily Telegraph.” On the centenary of the beginning of World War I, he published The Trigger which was his third novel.Īs a journalist, Tim worked at awkward times and awkward places as he reported on the conflict in South Asia, the Balkans, Africa, and the Middle East. Still interested in travel he trekked for more than 350 miles across Liberia following in the footsteps of Graham Greene. The novel has also been translated into more than half a dozen languages. Some of the awards it won include the Best Book Award by the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain, the Dolman Best Travel Book Award, and the Samuel Johnson Prize. It would also get nominated for several awards in the United Kingdom. Inspired by John Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness,” the novel would go on to become an international bestselling novel. Tim Butcher is an award-winning broadcaster, journalist, and bestselling novelist that is best known for his debut novel “Blood River.” The novel was an account of his journey across the Congo as he tried to showcase the region’s turbulent history.
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