About the Author

Benjamin Wood was born in 1981 and grew up in Merseyside. He is the author of five acclaimed novels, including the 2025 Booker-longlisted Seascraper. His works have been shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, the Commonwealth Book Prize, the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the RSL Encore Award ,the CWA Gold Dagger Award and the European Union Prize for Literature. In 2014, he won France's Prix du Roman Fnac. He is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at King's College, London, and lives in Surrey with his wife and sons.