BEST SELLING NOVELIST AND BIOGRAPHER
Nicholas Shakespeare
Nicholas Shakespeare is a prize-winning novelist and biographer, described by the Wall Street Journal as “one of the best English novelists of our time”. One of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists 1993, his books have been translated into 22 languages. They include The Vision of Elena Silves, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and Betty Trask Award, and The Dancer Upstairs, which was made into a film of the same name by John Malkovich and chosen by the American Library Association as the Best Novel of 1997. His nonfiction includes the critically acclaimed authorised biography of Bruce Chatwin, In Tasmania, Priscilla: the hidden life of an Englishwoman in Occupied France, Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister and Ian Fleming: The Complete Man, the first authorised biography of the creator of James Bond since 1966 and winner of the 2024 Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger Award. He has been longlisted for the Booker Prize twice, was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Praise for Nicholas Shakespeare
Nicholas Shakespeare gathers comparisons to the great and the good. He needs none. He is what he is — a very fine English novelist
Nicholas Shakespeare honours the best traditions of the novel
One of the best English novelists of our time
A great novelist