Nicola Barker

<p>Nicola Barker is one of Britain's most original and exciting literary talents. She is the author of two short-story collections: <em>Love Your Enemies</em> [winner of the David Higham Prize and the Macmillan Silver Pen Award] and <em>Heading Inland</em> [winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize]. Her previous novels are <em>Reversed Forecast, Small Holdings, Wide Open Behindlings </em>and <em>Clear,</em> the last of which was long-listed for the 2005 Booker Prize. Her work is translated into twenty languages, and in 2000, she won the IMPAC Award for <em>Wide Open</em>. In 2003, Nicola Barker was named a Granta Best of British Novelist. She lives in London.</p>