Samantha Harvey
Samantha Harvey is the author of four novels, The Wilderness, All Is Song, Dear Thief and The Western Wind, and of a work of non-fiction, The Shapeless Unease . Her novels have been short- and longlisted for various prizes including the Orange Prize, the Guardian First Book Award, the Walter Scott Prize, the Baileys Women’s Prize and the Man Booker. She has won the AMI Literature Award and the Betty Trask Prize and is a Reader in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.