James Twining

James was not one of these people who grew up desperate to be a writer. In fact when he wrote his first book, The Double Eagle, in 2004, it was the first time he had attempted to write any fiction since a Third Form poetry competition! That said, when he was clearing out his parents’ garage a few years ago, he came across a couple of old notebooks crammed with random plot and character ideas. He didn’t remember writing any of it, but perhaps some small corner of his brain wanted to be an author all along. It just took a while for the rest of him to catch up.

The Double Eagle, the first of his novels to feature art thief Tom Kirk, was first published in 2005 and has sold over 160,000 copies in the UK alone and been translated into nearly twenty languages. It’s sequel, The Black Sun , was published in April 2006 and has also been an international bestseller. The third Tom Kirk novel, The Gilded Seal, was published in October 2007 with the fourth in the series, The Geneva Deception, published in October 2009 in the UK, and July 2010 in the USA. 

The Double Eagle is being developed for TV by Amblin Entertainment & EJK Productions.