David Ambrose's fascination with the world of entertainment began aged five sitting under the stairs of an isolated rural cottage, listening to the radio. He realised there was a life out there beyond anything on offer in bleak post-war Lancashire. His enthusiasm for theatre and film failed to be derailed by a law degree from Oxford, where his first plays were performed while he was still an undergraduate. Three years later he was sitting with Orson Welles and Laurence Harvey shooting a major Roman epic for which he had written the screenplay. An international career followed, taking in theatre, films, and eventually a series of mind-bending novels which have been described as 'Hitchcock meets Hawking'. Fifty years on Ambrose is still trying to work out how it all happened to that kid under the stairs with his radio. A Fate Worse than Hollywood is his attempt at an answer.

About the Author
DAVID AMBROSE was born in Chorley Lancashire in 1943 and educated at Blackburn Grammar School and Merton College, Oxford. Becoming seriously distracted by the theatre, he postponed his intended career as a barrister (indefinitely, as it turned out) and by the age of twenty-five had established himself as a successful playwright and screenwriter. He is the author of multiple Hollywood screenplays and also a series of science fiction novels which have been described as as "Hitchcock meets Hawking". He continues to move easily between the cinema, theatre and literature. He lives in Provence, France, but is often found on the London social scene.


Book Information
ISBN 9781999312558
Author David Ambrose
Format Hardback
Page Count 336
Imprint Zuleika
Publisher Zuleika