Alan Judd is the author of eleven nov­els and two biogra­phies. He pre­vi­ous­ly served as a sol­dier in the British army and as a diplo­mat in the For­eign Office. Judd is a Fel­low of the Roy­al Soci­ety of Lit­er­a­ture and has won numer­ous awards includ­ing the Guardian Fic­tion Prize and the Heine­mann Award. He cur­rent­ly writes for The Spec­ta­tor and The Dai­ly Tele­graph. He lives in Sus­sex with his family.