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 timothy dowling
tim dowling

tim dowling -lrb- born 1963 , boston , usa -rrb- is a journalist and author .
dowling moved to the uk at the age of 27 and currently lives in london with his wife and three children .
dowling is a columnist for `` the guardian '' and has a weekly column in the paper 's saturday magazine , `` weekend '' .
his books include `` 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 and finds an online club of people 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 .
