biography
- born on March 7, 1941 in Beaconsfield
- went to Ampleforth College and St John's College
- first novel is Game in Heaven with Tussy Marx (published in 1966)
- second novel is The Junkers (published in 1968)
- won Hawthornden Prize with Monk Dawson (1969)
- more novels include A Season in the West (1988), A Patriot in Berlin (1995), Alice in Exile (2001)
- 5 million copies of Alive were sold world wide
awards
- 1988: James Tait Black Memorial Prize (fiction), A Season in the West
- 1970: Somerset Maugham Award, Monk Dawson
- 1970: Hawthornden Prize, Monk Dawson
- 1969: Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, The Junkers