Clifford Thurlow

Clifford Thurlow (born 1952, in London, England) trained as a journalist after failing to get a place at Cambridge and wrote his first book at age 23. He has been described by Penny Wark of The Times as "one of the UK's best ghostwriters."

Thurlow studied Buddhism in India and worked with the Dalai Lama as one of a team translating Tibetan sacred texts into English. He traded gemstones in South East Asia and ran a travelling dolphin show in Spain before moving to Hollywood where he penned Carol White's autobiography Carol Comes Home.

Thurlow is noted for creating novelised-style true life memoirs. Recent books are Fatwa: Living With A Death Threat (Hodder & Stoughton 2005), which describes the flight of Jacky Trevane across the desert with two children to escape an abusive husband; Today I'm Alice (Sidgwick & Jackson, 2009) the story of Multiple Personality Disorder survivor Alice Jamieson, a Sunday Times Top Ten best-seller; and two books set in Iraq with former infantry captain James Ashcroft, Escape From Baghdad (Virgin 2009), the rescue of Ashcroft's former Iraqi interpreter and his family from Shia Death Squads; and Making A Killing (Virgin 2006) – on which Andy Martin wrote in The Daily Telegraph: "Ashcroft must have formed a good working alliance with ghostwriter Clifford Thurlow, because this diary of death and destruction radiates not just personality but that illusive, lyrical honesty the existentialists used to call authenticity."

Thurlow’s screenplay The Whiskey Robber, written with writer-director György Dobray, went into production in 2011. Based on the true life adventures of ice hockey player Attila Ambrus, the notorious bank robber famed for drinking a few glasses of Scotch before each heist, the film stars Luke Goss, Jonas Armstrong and Andrea Osvárt. The film is produced by Kornél Sipos and Bill Chamberlain with music by Mike Moran.

Books

• 2009 – Escape From Baghdad, James Ashcroft rescues his Iraqi interpreter from death squads in Iraq
• 2009 – Today I'm Alice, the story of multiple personality disorder sufferer Alice Jamieson
• 2006 – Making A Killing, the story of Captain James Ashcroft
• 2005 – Making Short Films: The Complete Guide From Script to Screen
• 2004 – Fatwa: Living With A Death Threat, the story of Jacky Trevane
• 2003 – The Carol White Story
• 2001 – All Things Considered
• 2000 – Sex, Surrealism, Dali and Me, the story of Carlos Lozano
• 1992 – Brief Spring: A Journey Through Eastern Europe
• 1987 – Never Before Noon, the story of Afdera Fonda

External links

• www.cliffordthurlow.com
• www.making-short-films.com
• www.telegraph.co.uk
• www.makingakilling.co.uk
• www.imdb.com
• www.imdb.com/name/nm2280813

References

The Daily Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3656361/When-theyre-not-trying-to-kill-you-the-people-are-friendly.html

Making A Killing http://www.makingakilling.co.uk

Literary Agent http://www.andrewlownie.co.uk/authors/clifford-thurlow

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