about the author

CHRIS CLEAVE IS A novelist and a columnist for The Guardian newspaper in London.

His bestselling novel, Incendiary, was published in twenty countries, won the 2006 Somerset Maugham Award, was short-listed for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, won the United States Book-of-the-Month Club’s First Fiction Award, and won the Prix Spécial du Jury at the French Prix des Lecteurs 2007.

Inspired by his early childhood in West Africa and by an accidental visit to a British concentration camp, Little Bee is his second novel.

He lives in London with his French wife and two mischievous Anglo-French children.

He keeps his website at www.chriscleave.com.