Author Biog

Photo Lesley Abdela

Tim Symonds was born in London and grew up in Somerset, Dorset and Guernsey. After several years in East and Central Africa in his late teens farming and driving bulldozers he moved to California and graduated from UCLA with a degree in Politics. He is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and former member of the Chartered Institute of Journalists.

He and his partner Lesley live in the High Weald of Sussex where the events recounted in ‘the Dead Boer’ took place.