Tim Roux


Biography

Born near Hull in the UK in 1954, Tim Roux was called to the Bar as a lawyer before working for over 20 years in business strategy and strategic brand marketing for a major multinational corporation.

With degrees in both law and social sciences/psychology, and having worked as a volunteer for Amnesty International for several years, he is fascinated by the complex issues surrounding personal rights (human, civil and animal), and much of his writing is centred on these themes.

Where to find Tim Roux online


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Books

(Just like) El Cid's Bloomers    by Tim Roux
Price: $0.99 USD. 40180 words. Published by Tim Roux - Night Publishing  on March 23, 2011. Fiction.

(5.00 from 1 review)
Jake Pembleton is a singer-songwriter who once killed a man, which still plays on his conscience. Now he is in real trouble. Ever since returning home to his wife and kids to find his suitcases parked outside his front door, Jake has been holed up with a springy nineteen year old groupie who is so sexy that she nearly gives him a heart attack each time she steps out of the shower.
Little Fingers!    by Tim Roux
Price: $0.99 USD. 79260 words. Published by Tim Roux - Night Publishing  on January 21, 2011. Fiction.

Julia Blackburn's mother committed suicide when Julia was sixteen. Or maybe she was murdered. Why? After a near-fatal car crash in which she had to be reconstructed bone-by-bone - a process which radically changed her outlook on life - Julia returns to the idyllic country village where her mother was brought up to ask exactly that question - why?
Girl on a Bar Stool    by Tim Roux
Price: $0.99 USD. 81900 words. Published by Tim Roux - Night Publishing  on July 18, 2010. Fiction.

When Adam Melton, the ambitious brand manager of Petrovsk Vodka went out on the town that night, he was hoping to pick up a beautiful girl and a few hints and tips from his target market, the vodka-swilling ladettes of Reading. Meeting the sultry Yasemin at the bar in one of his favourite haunts, he got all that he was hoping for, and ominously more. Now he has been condemned to save the world
The Dance of the Pheasodile    by Tim Roux
Price: $0.99 USD. 79150 words. Published by Tim Roux - Night Publishing  on May 11, 2010. Fiction.

Keith and Chrissie McGuire are determined to create a perfect life for themselves and their two children, having been brought up in care homes themselves. Everything is going well. However, when they decide to visit a hypnotherapist to address some residual childhood issues, Keith emerges from his hypnotic trance as Harry Walker, a petty gangster soiling the streets of Northern England.
Shade+Shadows    by Tim Roux
Price: $0.99 USD. 83510 words. Published by Tim Roux - Night Publishing  on May 7, 2010. Fiction.

Alan Harding is an alternative healer who marries the former wife of a controversial ambassador who survived an assassination attempt by Middle-Eastern terrorists. When his wife, Jane, is kidnapped as retribution for her husband's crimes, everyone assumes that the kidnappers are referring to the ambassador's activities. However, the good doctor has his own dark secrets .....
The Blue Food Revolution    by Tim Roux
Price: $0.99 USD. 86860 words. Published by Tim Roux - Night Publishing  on April 27, 2010. Fiction.

'The Blue Food Revolution' is the story of a young man and a young woman travelling the world in search of adventure, enlightenment, fun, and possibly each other. What they experience astonishes them, terrifies them, enthralls them, saddens them and unexpectedly kills one of them.
.... at last!    by Tim Roux
Price: $0.99 USD. 41880 words. Published by Tim Roux - Night Publishing  on April 24, 2010. Nonfiction.

Fun, shocking, exhilarating, comic and sometimes graphic real-life short stories and poems with a hint (or more) of sex from 12 of the sharpest contributors to the online international writers' magazine.
Missio    by Tim Roux
Price: $0.99 USD. 55480 words. Published by Tim Roux - Night Publishing  on April 23, 2010. Fiction.

Stevie Francis lost his dad when the Hull trawler, The Gaul, disappeared without trace on 8 February 1974. Walking the rundown streets of his dockland neighbourhood searching for his cat, Stevie meets a children's magician who teaches Stevie that nothing in this world is as it appears. What he cannot tell him about are the two years of his life that Stevie will spend in absolute darkness.

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