Rhidian Brook is an award-winning screenwriter and writer of fiction. His novels include The Testimony of Taliesin Jones, won several prizes including the Somerset Maugham Award and was made into a film (2001) starring Jonathan Pryce, The Aftermath which was made into a film (2019) starring Keira Knightley and Alexander Skarsgard, and The Killing of Butterfly Joe is also being developed for the screen. Rhidian is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4’s ‘Thought for the Day’. He once had a job selling butterflies in glass cases.



