Kathryn Heyman

Kathryn Heyman is a novelist, essayist and scriptwriter. Her fifth novel, Floodline, was published in September 2013. Her first novel, The Breaking, was shortlisted for the Stakis Award for the Scottish Writer of the Year and longlisted for the Orange Prize. Other awards include an Arts Council of England Writers Award, the Wingate and the Southern Arts Awards, and nominations for the Edinburgh Fringe Critics Awards, the Kibble Prize, and the West Australian Premiers Book Awards. Her work has been compared to that of Cormac McCarthy,  Kate Grenville, Angela Carter, Peter Carey, William Golding and Joseph Conrad.