Carol Birch is the author of ten novels, including Scapegallows (2008) and Turn Again Home (2003), which was longlisted for the Booker Prize.

She has also won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the David Higham Award for Best First Novel. Jamrach’s Menagerie was shortlisted for the 2011 Booker Prize, and longlisted for both the Orange Prize for Fiction 2011 and the London Book Award.

Carol Birch