Tim Symonds was born in London. He grew up in Somerset, Dorset and the Channel Island of Guernsey. After several years in the Highlands of Kenya and along the Zambezi River and two years in Canada he emigrated to the United States. He studied at the University of California, Los Angeles, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in Political Science. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
Sherlock Holmes And The Sword of Osman was written in a converted oast house near Rudyard Kipling’s old home, Bateman’s, in the English county of East Sussex, and completed on Gavdos, a remote island in the Libyan Sea, off Crete.