Kathryn Heyman is the author of six previous novels, and the acclaimed memoir, Fury. She has won numerous awards including an Arts Council of England Writers Award, the Wingate and the Southern Arts Awards, and been nominated for the Orange Prize, the Scottish Writer of the Year Award, the international Folio Prize, the Edinburgh Fringe Critics’ Awards, the Kibble Prize, the West Australian Premier’s Book Awards and the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. Her plays for BBC Radio include adaptations of her own work. A previous Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Westminster College, Oxford, she was also the Scottish Arts Council Writing Fellow at the University of Glasgow, and received the Copyright Agency Author Fellowship for Fury, which is in development as a feature film.
