Author biog
Born and brought up in Lincolnshire, Tim Bradford's first job was at a small
agency in Norfolk helping to write recruitment brochures fortop Midlands pie
manufacturers. He moved to London in 1988, where he experimented with various
non-linear career moves: art packer, superintendent at Sheperd's Bush market,
sort-of surveyor for London Transport, hand-painted T-shirt maker, stall 
holder
at Portobello Road market, picture librarian at the Financial Times,
camera tester and film reviewer. Finally in 1990 he found his true vocation
- drawing cartoons of footballers with very short legs for When Saturday
Comes. He now combines that highly succesful career with travel writing
(his first book, Is Shane MacGowan Still Alive? was published by Flamingo
in 2000). Tim also helps run onetouchfootball.com
and illustrates for The Guardian. He is married with two children and lives
in a quiet North London valley.
