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Francis King

Born in Switzerland, Francis King spent his childhood in India, where his father was a government official. While still an undergraduate at Oxford he published his first three novels. He then joined the British Council, working in Italy, Greece, Egypt, Finland and Japan, before he resigned to devote himself entirely to writing. For some years he was drama critic for the Sunday Telegraph and he reviews fiction regularly for the Spectator. He is a former winner of the Somerset Maugham Prize, of the Katherine Mansfield Prize and of the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year Award for Act of Darkness (1983). His recent book, The Nick of Time, was long-listed for the 2003 Man Booker Prize.

One of our great writers, of the calibre of Graham Greene and Nabokov - Beryl Bainbridge

In 1993 Constable published Francis King's autobiography, Yesterday Came Suddenly. Frances King lives in London.

Works by Francis King include:
The Nick of Time
Prodigies
A Hand at the Shutter
The One and Only
Dead Letters
Ash on an Old Man's Sleeve
Yesterday Came Suddenly
Act of Darkness
Ant Colony

Agent:

Bill Hamilton

Nick of Time, The

Prodigies

Sunlight on the Garden, The