BOOK the 9th of February!

at 4pm, Fully Booked, Bonifacio High Street, Metro Manila, Dan Rhodes will be kicking off his 2008 tour with his first ever reading in The Philippines. Make sure you don’t miss this historic event. At the time of writing we are unable to confirm the rumour that if this reading goes well Rhodes will start thinking seriously about running for president.


Also, his latest book Gold is still available at all major bookstores. For more on it, please click on this link: http://www.danrhodes.co.uk/gold.html







Dan Rhodes in person.

Dan Rhodes is the author of five books:

Anthropology (2000)
Don’t Tell Me The Truth About Love (2001)
Timoleon Vieta Come Home (2003)
The Little White Car (2004 – writing as Danuta de Rhodes)
Gold (2007)

Here are some illustrious honours he has received:

Anthropology was shortlisted for the Macmillan Silver Pen award, losing out at the final hurdle to The Hill Bachelors by William Trevor. If you’re going to lose a short story competition to anyone, it might as well be William Trevor. At a break in proceedings, Rhodes had a dramatic tussle over a bottle of wine with someone he later found out was Harold Pinter.

Timoleon Vieta Come Home won the QPB New Voices Award in 2004. This was Rhodes’ first prize, and although he was mildly disappointed that he could no longer refer to himself as an award-losing author, he was, on balance, delighted to have won. He celebrated by going on the water dodgems at Coney Island, fatally damaging his brand new watch in the process. He had thrown away the receipt.

Timoleon Vieta Come Home also won the Authors’ Club First Novel Award in 2004. Prior to the ceremony Rhodes had been living the writer’s life and hadn’t been home for a few weeks, so he hadn’t read the formal invitation. Consequently he turned up dressed in his idea of smart clothing (i.e. not at all smart) while all the other men were dressed in tuxes.

Timoleon Vieta Come Home was also shortlisted for the Prince Maurice Prize and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. It was included in Barnes and Noble’s Discover New Writers programme, for which Rhodes was presented with a Mont Blanc pen. He swiftly lost the cap, thereby rendering it useless.

Rhodes was also included in the London Evening Standard’s 2003 list of People Who Make London Swing. This is particularly impressive as Rhodes has never lived in London. And nor is he, as stated in the piece, the "son of a Devon bricklayer".

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It should be noted that a recent Gallup poll revealed that there are an estimated 14,000 writers worldwide who share Rhodes’ name. He is not to be confused with the Daniel Rhodes who writes books about vampires, or the Daniel Rhodes who writes books about ceramics, or the Dan Rhodes who writes books about theology, or the Danny Rhodes who writes teenage fiction, or the character Sheriff Dan Rhodes in Bill Crider’s Western detective series, or any of the many other Dan/Daniel/Danny Rhodeses out there in bookland.

He is, however, to be confused with the beautiful Danuta de Rhodes.

He lives in Scotland, and looks like this:




All of these, and More earth-shattering facts from http://www.danrhodes.co.uk/

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More importantly for me though, Dan's coming home with dear Emmily! And their son, Arthur William, aka Arturito Burrito (the last time I checked. I was told that he is known by many other names).

Happy times.