Tim Heald

Tim Heald (born January 28, 1944) is a British author, biographer, journalist and public speaker.

Life and writings

Heald was born in Dorchester, Dorset, England, and educated at Sherborne School, Dorset, and Balliol College, Oxford, gaining an MA in Modern History.

He has written over thirty published books, including official biographies of HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (The Duke - a Portrait of Prince Philip (1991), Hodder & Stoughton), and HRH Princess Margaret (Princess Margaret - a Life Unravelled (2007), Orion Books).

Heald is also known for his mystery novels featuring Simon Bognor, special investigator, (10 titles), serialised by Thames TV. More recently as creator of Dr Tudor Cornwall in a new crime trilogy published by Robert Hale Ltd: Death and the Visiting Fellow (2004), Death and the D'Urbervilles (2005), A Death on the Ocean Wave (2007). He recently returned to the newly knighted Simon Bognor and has published two new novels Death in the Opening Chapter and Poison at the Pueblo with Creme de la Crime/ Severn House. He is working on more.^{[citation needed]}

As a journalist, Tim Heald has written for Punch, The Spectator, The Sunday Times (Atticus column), Daily Express (feature writer 1967-72), The Times, The Daily Telegraph, and is a freelance travel writer. In the autumn of 2009 he started writing a "Royal Blog" for the Daily Telegraph web-site and was appointed Royal Correspondent by the editor of The Lady (a magazine), Rachel Johnson.

As a speaker, he is often a guest on Cunard cruise ships QE2, Caronia. He was the author of Village Cricket (Little Brown, 2004), on which a Carlton TV series was based.

Tim Heald lived in Fowey, Cornwall, for fifteen years but recently moved to south Somerset where his mother was born and his father is buried.

Bibliography

• Unbecoming habits
• Blue Blood will out
• Deadline
• Let Sleeping Dogs Die
• Just Desserts
• Murder at Moose Jaw
• Caroline R (this novel eerily chronicles a life similar to that of Princess Diana from her marriage to Prince Charles to her death in 1997)
• Masterstroke
• Class Distinctions
• Red herrings
• Brought to Book
• The Rigby File (Editor)
• Business Unusual
• A Classic English Crime (Editor)
• It's a Dog's Life
• The Making of Space 1999
• John Steed, the Authorised Biography Vol 1
• HRH The Man Who Would Be King (co-author with Mayo Mohs)
• Networks
• The Character of Cricket
• The Newest London Spy (Editor)
• By Appointment - 150 Years of the Royal Warrant and its Holders
• My Lord's
• The Duke - Portrait of Prince Philip
• Honourable Estates
• A Life of Love - The Life of Barbara Cartland
• Denis - The Authorised Biography of the Incomparable Compton
• Brian Johnston - The Authorised Biography
• Beating Retreat - Hong Kong Under the Last Governor

Death and the Visiting Fellow Death and the D'Urbervilles A Death on the Ocean Wave Tomfoolery edited work of Tom Baun compiled with is brother, Christopher Jardine's last Tour My Dear Hugh - the collected letters of Richard Cobb Death in the Opening Chapter Poison at the Pueblo