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A compelling read… …especially if you remember! Tim shares his journey of pain, loss, searching and seeking understanding as he tells his own story of this remarkable family and this terrible event. Anon Kindle Reader   A superb book Beautifully written. Meticulous in its research. Painfully honest without being maudlin. Can’t recommend it enough. HD […]


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News from Timothy Knatchbull

The death of Countess Mountbatten of Burma On Tuesday, June 13th, 2017 the 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma (Patricia) died peacefully at her home in Kent surrounded by her children. She was 93. A celebration of her life was held two weeks later at St Paul’s Church in Knightsbridge, London and the following day she […]


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Extracts of ‘From a Clear Blue Sky’

‘Twins’               The heart of a human foetus starts to beat three weeks after conception. Mine started beating in the middle of March 1964. A few millimeters away another heart was beating alongside mine. It belonged to my identical twin. Our hearts beat in loose synchronicity over seven hundred million times until he was killed, […]


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Press Releases for Timothy Knatchbull

If the article does not appear, please check your downloaded files 03.09.10 Hutchinson Publishers 08.03.10 Aspen House & Random House India 05.08.10 Arrow Books


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TV interviews with Timothy Knatchbull

27.08.09 ITV: News at Ten 27.08.09 Ulster TV 27.08.09 Fermanagh TV 21.09.09 BBC South East Today 04.09.09 BBC News: Breakfast  15.08.10 Sky News: Sunday Live


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Online interviews with Timothy Knatchbull

27.08.09 Belfast Galleries 29.08.09 Belfast Today 27.08.09 Culture Northern Ireland 20.09.09 Kent News 08.03.10 Aspen Institute 08.03.10 Aspen Institute 09.03.10 Design & People 11.03.10 Prospect Burma 11.03.10 Prospect Burma 26.08.10 Five Books 04.01.11 The Browser


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Radio interviews with Timothy Knatchbull

27.08.09 BBC World Service: World Update (go to ‘Transcriptions’ for interview) 27.08.09 BBC Radio Four: Today (go to ‘Transcriptions’ for interview) 02.09.09 RTE 2fm: The Tubridy Show (go to ‘Transcriptions’ for interview) 03.09.09 RTE 2fm: The Tubridy Show (go to ‘Transcriptions’ for interview) 02.09.09 TODAYfm: The Last Word (go to ‘Transcriptions’ for interview) 04.09.09 BBC […]


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Newspaper interviews with Timothy Knatchbull

If the article does not appear, please check your downloaded files 19.08.09 Sligo Champion 23.08.09 Irish Independent 23.08.09 Irish Tribune 23.08.09 Sunday Times 27.08.09 Daily Telegraph 28.08.09 Daily Mail 30.08.09 Sunday Times Review 16.09.09 Business Standard 18.09.09 Daily Mail 24.09.09 Kentish Express 12.10.09 Daily Telegraph 28.10.09 Fermanagh Herald 01.11.09 The Hindu 27.02.10 Times of India […]


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Preface to ‘From a Clear Blue Sky’

            We all have a car crash in our lives. To date I have had one; it happened to be a bomb. I was a boy at the time, on a small boat in Ireland. Three of my family and a friend died in the explosion. One of the dead was my identical twin brother Nicholas […]


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Prologue to ‘From a Clear Blue Sky’

            On the morning of Monday 27 August 1979, Paul Maxwell asked me the time. He laughed when I told him it was eleven thirty-nine and forty seconds. We were as carefree as skylarks, out together in my grandfather’s small fishing boat off County Sligo on the west coast of Ireland. My identical twin brother Nicholas […]


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    'Testament to a remarkable, benevolent soul...With this public love letter he has found a way to say goodbye’. Sunday Times


    ‘It is one of the most penetrating and humane books to have emerged from the Troubles.’

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