Chris Cleave is 38. He lives in London with his wife and three children.

His debut novel Incendiary won a 2006 Somerset Maugham Award, was shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers Prize, and won the United States Book-of-the-Month Club’s First Fiction award 2005.

His second novel is titled LITTLE BEE in Canada and the US, where it is a New York Times #1 bestseller. It is titled THE OTHER HAND in the UK, where it is a Sunday Times bestseller. It was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Awards. Read reviews here.

Chris Cleave has been a barman, a long-distance sailor and teacher of marine navigation, an internet pioneer and a journalist.

Books by Chris Cleave

Gold

by Chris Cleave - Fiction

Zoe and Kate are world-class athletes who have been friends and rivals since their first day of Elite training. Now on the eve of London 2012, their last Olympics, both women will be tested to their physical and emotional limits.

Little Bee

by Chris Cleave

Little Bee, a young Nigerian refugee, has just been released from the British immigration detention center where she's been held for the past two years. Alone in a foreign country, she seeks out the only English person she knows: a posh young mother and magazine editor with whom she shares a dark and tumultuous past.