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Tim Butcher has made a career of writing from awkward places at awkward times. Born in 1967 he spent his childhood in the British Midlands before a year climbing mountains in New Zealand and a degree in politics, philosophy and economics from Magdalen College, Oxford. From 1991 he has worked for The Daily Telegraph covering crises from the Balkan wars of the 1990s, to the allied invasion of Iraq in 2003 and Israel's 2006 struggle with Hizbollah in Lebanon.

In 2004 he embarked on an epic journey across the Congo, a region almost entirely cut off from outsiders for decades. The resulting book, `Blood River - A Journey To Africa's Broken Heart', was the best-selling travel book of 2008 and topped the Sunday Times charts. It was the only non-fiction chosen for the Richard & Judy Book Club and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2008.

In 2008 he walked 400 miles across Liberia researching a new book, Chasing
The Devil.

He worked from 1990 to 2009 on the staff of The Daily Telegraph, covering a range of frontline news reporting jobs including Africa Bureau Chief, Middle East Correspondent, Defence Correspondent. Beyond The Telegraph and he has written for a wide range of titles including The Spectator, Prospect, Tatler, The New Statesman, The Economist, International Herald Tribune and The Guardian.

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