He practised corporate and conveyancing law at Shearn Delamore in Kuala Lumpur before working for Merit Management Sdn Bhd, the property developer responsible for Tiara Damansara in section 17, Petaling Jaya. He holds a Master of Science degree in Shipping, Trade and Finance (Distinction) from the City University Business School in London. Tunku Halim qualified as a barrister in the United Kingdom after having obtained his law degree He has been called to the bar in the High Court of Malaya and as a solicitor in New South Wales. He has also written on real estate in Malaysia including Condominiums - Purchase, Investment and Habitat. He is also a weight-loss advocate and has written books on the subject. This includes History of Malaysia, A Children's Encyclopedia and A Children's History of Malaysia.
The author's recent works focus on Malaysian history for children. His collection of tales, Horror Stories, is a significant best-selling book in Malaysia and his latest retrospective collection Scream to the Shadows published by Penguin Random House SEA will expand his readership in Asia and internationally. His latest novel, A Malaysian Restaurant in London, is more conventional, being a paranormal love story. His novel, Last Breath, is seen as taking a step away from the genre into "a mixture of character drama, satire, alternate history and magic realism". By delving into Malay myth, legends and folklore his writing is regarded as "World Gothic". His novel Vermillion Eye was a study text at the National University of Singapore. The author's fiction primarily falls within the dark fantasy and horror genre. Tunku Halim bin Tunku Abdullah (born 1964) is a Malaysian novelist, short story, non-fiction writer and lawyer. The Arabic-derived word "bin" or "binti"/"binte", if used, means 'son of' or 'daughter of', respectively. The name Tunku Abdullah is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Halim. In this Malay name, there is no family name.
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