Paul Bailey

Paul Bailey is an award-winning writer whose novels include At The Jerusalem, which won a Somerset Maugham Award and an Arts Council Writers' Award; Peter Smart's Confessions and Gabriel's Lament, both shortlisted for the Bookr Prize for Fiction; Sugar Cane, a sequel to Gabriel's Lament, Kitty and Virgil and most recently, Uncle Rudolf. He is the recipient of the E. M. Forster Award and the George Orwell Memorial Award, and has also written and presented features for radio. Paul Bailey lives in London.

Paul Bailey was born in 1937. At the Jerusalem was his first novel. His other works incude Peter Smart's Confessions (1977) and Gabriel's Lament (1986), both of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction.