Harry Whitehead is a novelist and director of the Centre for New Writing at the University of Leicester, where he also directs the annual free lit-fest, Literary Leicester. His first novel The Cannibal Spirit (Penguin) was called 'powerful, brave, ambitious' (The Globe & Mail), 'a unique work, compelling, complex, thought-provoking and impressive' (Quill & Quire), 'a thriller with a Joseph Conradian plot' (The Walrus). He's published short stories, reviews, essays and more in a wide variety of genres. He used to work in the film business and, before that, lived in the Far East.