The Iron Bird

About Robert Woodshaw

Robert studied English and Drama at the University of London a degree that led to a brief career in casting and assistant credits on several films including WONDERLAND (1999) and 24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE (2002). In the mid-2000s though he realised he could no longer ignore an idea hed been nurturing for a novel about Margaret Thatcher and began a process of research that took him from some of the most dilapidated zoos in Eastern Europe to the West Wing of the White House where he learned a secret about the grocers daughter from Grantham that he has never revealed. In an attempt to recover from an overexposure to the gushing memoirs of certain Conservative politicians he retreated to a small town in the foothills of the Italian Alps accepted a teaching position at a local secondary school and put pen to paper. Despite the disappointing result of the EU referendum he still considers himself European. And so he divides his time between Bristol and Bergamo where he has an Italian civil partner and a pigeon-infested restoration project. THE IRON BIRD is his first novel.