Tim Leach

Tim Leach is a novelist, specialising in historical fiction. His first novel, The Last King of Lydia, was published in 2013 by Atlantic and shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize that year. He is also the author of The King and the Slave (Atlantic Book, 2014) and The Smile of the Wolf (Head of Zeus, 2018).

Tim is a graduate of the Warwick Writing Programme, where he now teaches as an Assistant Professor. The Iron Way (Head of Zeus, 2022) is the second instalment in his breathtaking new Sarmatian Trilogy: a gripping historical adventure set in the second century AD and based on legends of King Arthur. The latest in his Sarmatian Trilogy is The Hollow Throne, which was published in August 2023 (Bloomsbury).

Photo courtesy of Emma Leach