High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Christopher Hovelle Wood (born 5 November 1935 in London`s Lambeth borough) is an English screenwriter and novelist best known for the Confessions series of novels and films which he wrote as `Timothy Lea`. Under his own name, he adapted two James Bond novels for the screen: The Spy Who Loved Me (1977 with Richard Maibaum) and Moonraker (1979).