Tim Bourke

Who is Tim Bourke?

Tim Bourke is an Australian bridge player, author and internationally renowned collector and composer of bridge hands having composed most of the hands in David Bird's "Abbot" series since 1996. He also owns one of the world's largest collections of English bridge books, magazines and memorabilia.

As a player, he has won nine Australian national titles.

He has a degree in mathematics and is an expert in the obscure computer programming language APL and has written extensive bridge odds-calculating routines in that language as well as many bridge-related formatting routines.

He has had published over 50 reports on Australian and Zone 7 Teams Championships Finals. His 2010 publication Bridge Books in English 1886 to 2010 - an annotated bibliography with co-author John Sugden contains over 700 pages of listings. Bourke is also assisting Anthony Moon in his multi-book project on bridge squeezes.