DAVID AMBROSE
David Ambrose was born in Lancashire and educated at Blackburn Grammar School and Merton College, Oxford, where he read law. 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. In 1977 his fake TV documentary Alternative 3, about global warming and high level government conspiracies, became a “succes de scandale” and the subject of an international cult. After that he moved to Hollywood, where he first worked with the legendary Gene Roddenberry on story concepts for Star Trek, and went on to script many films with stars including Kirk Douglas, Orson Welles, Richard Widmark, James Mason, Pierce Brosnan and Sharon Stone. In the early nineties he began work on a series of novels widely acclaimed as “fast-paced”, “mind-bending” and “unputdownable”, which reflected his fascination with psychology, philosophy, and some of the more far-reaching implications of theoretical physics. His work has best been described as “Hitchcock meets Hawking”. He continues to move easily between the cinema, theatre and literature, and is currently working on several projects in each of those fields.
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LATEST BOOK: THE MAN WHO TURNED INTO HIMSELF (Reissue)
Rick Hamilton, publisher of a small journal based in Connecticut, has a premonition of his wife's death in a car crash. He rushes out of an important business meeting and speeds to the scene of the accident without questioning how he knows where to go. But he is too late. Seeing his wife die, he blacks out and awakens to an altered reality - he is being pulled from the wreckage of the car as his wife looks on. Rick, as it turns out, is trapped inside the body of Richard A. Hamilton, his counterpart in our universe (among other differences in Rick's parallel universe, John F. Kennedy, Bobby and Marilyn Monroe are all alive). Soon, with the help of a blind psychiatrist, Rick formulates a plan to use hypnosis to send him 'home'.
Originally published by Jonathan Cape in the UK and Macmillan US in 1993 this cult book was re-released by Picador USA in April 2008. Dramatic rights to HBO.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:The Man Who Turned Into Himself Jonathan Cape, 1993. Reissued by Picador (US) in 2008. Mother of God Macmillan, 1995. Simon & Schuster (US), 1996. Hollywood Lies Macmillan, 1996. Reissued by Pocket Books, 2008. Superstition Macmillan, 1997. Warner Books (US), 1998. The Discrete Charm of Charlie Monk Macmillan, 2000. Warner Books (US) 2001. Coincidence. Simon & Schuster, 2001. Pocket Books, 2002. A Memory of DemonsSimon & Schuster, 2003. Pocket Books, 2004.
