Christopher Rush is the author of twelve critically acclaimed works of fiction, poetry, screenplay and memoirs. From a seafaring family in Fife, Scotland, Rush moved away from a career in the Navy or as a fisherman to gain a first class degree from Aberdeen University. He was awarded a Research Fellowship to Cambridge but declined it to become a schoolmaster. He taught English in Scotland for 30 years and his first collection of short stories were published in 1983. His novel, Twelvemonth and a day, was short listed for Scottish Book of the Year Award and won the Scottish Arts Council award. His screenplay also gained him a shortlist nomination for McVitie Scottish Writer of the Year. However, Christopher suffered a decade-long writer's block after the sudden and tragic death of this first wife. Desperate to write again, he bought a donkey and followed Robert Louis Stevenson's journey around the Cevennes, about which he wrote his memoir, To Travel Hopefully (Profile books, 2005). With confidence once again to write, the author began, with the support of his second wife, to write what he calls now calls his 'lifetime achievement' - the 'autobiography' of William Shakespeare. Having dedicated nearly 50 years of his life to Shakespeare, Christopher wrote the novel Will in five weeks. Sir Ben Kingsley's production company, SBK Pictures, signed the world screen rights just days before publication of the novel. Production is set to begin in Spring 2008. The author lives in Crail, Fife with his wife and their daughter.

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For the first time in 400 years, an author has dared to take on the voice of the world's most famous playwright. William Shakespeare is on his deathbed, where he receives his lawyer to set out his final will and testament. As he answers his questions the Bard begins to recall his life, and over 448 pages of tumultuous, passionate and glorious writing the true life of an extraordinary man emerges. This is Shakespeare as we have never known him: angry, emotional, honest, reflective, joyous, despairing - the Bard will never be the same.

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