has produced three books in the last five years. The novel, The Truth about These Strange Times (2007) won the Betty Trask award and made him the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. Broken Words (2008), a narrative poem, was short-listed for the John Llewellyn Rhys award and won the Costa Prize in poetry. In 2009, his novel, The Quickening Maze, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

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