Rhidian Brook

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Rhidian Brook (born 1964, Tenby, Pembrokeshire) is a Welsh novelist, journalist, TV dramatist and short-story writer.

Brook has written two novels. His first, The Testimony of Taliesin Jones (1996), tells the story of an 11-year-old boy who lives with his father and elder brother on a farm in south-west Wales, and how he comes to terms with his parents' separating. The novel won the 1997 Somerset Maugham Award, a Betty Trask Award and the Author's Club First Novel Award. In 2000 the novel was made into a film, directed by Martin Duffy and starring Jonathan Pryce and John-Paul Macleod.

Brook's second novel, Jesus and the Adman (1999), tells the story of Johnny Yells, a young, ambitious advertising executive, who comes up with an advertsing concept at his own father's funeral, a smiling Jesus: his career takes off, but he becomes obsessed with his own death.

Rhidian Brook has also written 4 episodes for the TV series Silent Witness in 2005-6: The Meaning of Death: Part 1 (2005); The Meaning of Death: Part 2 (2005); Body of Work: Part 1 (2006) and Body of Work: Part 2 (2006). He has also written a TV drama for the BBC, Mr. Harvey Lights a Candle (2005), directed by Susanna White.

In Easter 2005, Brook presented Nailing the Cross a documentary for BBC1 about the symbol of the meaning of cross to British culture.

In 2006 Brook broadcast a series In The Blood for BBC World Service, recording his family's journey through the AIDS pandemic and work with the Salvation Army. His journey also became a book, More Than Eyes Can See: A Nine Month Journey into the Aids Pandemic (2007).

Rhidian Brook lives with his wife and two children in Chiswick, London.