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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Classiebawn Castle

1694 10,000 acres of land in Sligo comes into the possession of Sir John Temple of East Sheen, Attorney General of Ireland 1704 Sir John Temple dies, his son Henry inherits his estate 1723 Henry Temple is created the first Viscount Palmerston of Palmerston in County Dublin 1757 1st Viscount Palmerston dies and is succeeded […]


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Press Reviews of 'From a Clear Blue Sky'

Press Reviews of ‘From a Clear Blue Sky’

If the article does not appear, please check your downloaded files 27.08.09 Culture Northern Ireland 30.08.09 Sunday Times Review 18.09.09 Daily Mail 07.10.09 The Friend 12.10.09 Daily Telegraph 14.12.09 The House Magazine 10.02.10 ‘The Witness’ South Africa 27.02.10 Times of India March 2010 Tamba BSG 06.08.10 Daily Mail 09.08.10 Irish Independent Summer 2010 The Compassionate […]


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Biography

Biography

Timothy Knatchbull is the youngest child of Patricia and John Brabourne, the 7th Lord Brabourne, and grandson of Earl Mountbatten of Burma. He attended the Dragon School in Oxford and after winning scholarships to Gordonstoun and the United World College in Wales, he read Social and Political Science at Cambridge. Following ten years as a […]


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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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  • 'It is one of the most intensely moving stories I have ever read, and I was gripped from the first page.'

    Barbara Taylor Bradford


    '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.’

    Irish Independent


    'This amazingly clear-headed and mature book...Intelligent, honest, tender and so moving that it should come with a warning to read this in private because you're going to be in a tear-stained mess.’ Daily Mail


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