Tim Dowling is a journalist and author. Dowling moved to the UK at the age of 27 and currently lives in London

London

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 with his wife and three children.

Dowling is a columnist for The Guardian

The Guardian

The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...

and has a weekly column in the paper's Saturday magazine, Weekend. He has published two books, Suspicious Packages and Extendable Arms, a collection of his writing from The Guardian, and The Giles Wareing Haters' Club, a novel concerning a journalist who searches for his name on Google

Google

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and finds an online club of people of who hate him. The book was inspired by Dowling's own experiences in searching for mentions of his name online.
He is a member of the band Police Dog Hogan and writes about their festival gigs in his column.

External links

• Tim Dowling's Guardian column with full archives