Chris Cleave s debut novel INCENDIARY was an international bestseller published in 20 countries. It won the 2006 Somerset Maugham Award, was shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers Prize, won the United States Book-of-the-Month Club s First Fiction award 2005, won the Prix Special du Jury at the French Prix des Lecteurs 2007, and will be released in early 2008 as a major motion picture.
Inspired by his early childhood in West Africa, THE OTHER HAND is Chris Cleave s second novel. He is married with two children, and lives in London. He keeps a website at www.chriscleave.com.