Tim Stretton

Biography

T. M. (Tim) Stretton has published ten novels across a variety of genres. His crime novels Catfish Alley, Casanova Street andDiamond Boulevard,comprising the Barcelona trilogy, are published by Sharpe Books. Each features a different British protagonist unwisely drawn into the Catalan underworld, and if you want to root for the good guys, you’ll have to find them first.

Tim was born and raised on the Isle of Wight, and now lives in the New Forest with his partner and cat. He has a degree in English and American Literature from the University of Kent. He was also a senior editor at the international Vance Integral Edition project. Before concentrating on writing full-time, he was the deputy finance director of a local authority and also worked as a trainer and consultant. His non-fiction has appeared in publications as diverse as the Local Government Chronicle and Introvert, Dear.

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Cover Story by RN Morris Review

Life hasn’t been kind to Col Newton. His fleeting moment of literary celebrity has long faded, and he’s living in a dismal bedsit with millennials half his age. When his old university pal Chris Lazenby turns up offering him £50,000 to write a novel, it seems too good to be true. And that’s ...

The Enduring Appeal of the Anti-hero

There is a moment in Lawrence Block’s Hit Man when Keller, a professional assassin, pauses mid-contemplation of a stamp album to calmly plan his next kill. In that seamless transition from philatelist to hitman, a quiet, unsettling realisation dawns on the reader: we are rooting for him. From ...

Author Interviews

What drew you specifically to Barcelona as a setting? How does the city shape the stories you tell?The first novel in the series, Catfish Alley, was the classic lockdown novel. I was watching too much Netflix, and I came across a Catalan-made series set in Barcelona. I disliked almost everything about it, but I loved the authenticity of the Barcelona as ...