Rupert Thomson is the author of more than a dozen critically acclaimed novels, including Barcelona Dreaming, which was shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Fiction with a Sense of Place Award, Never Anyone but You, which was shortlisted for the American Library in Paris Book Award, Death of a Murderer, which was shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the Year Award, and The Insult, which was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize and selected by David Bowie as one of his 100 Must Read Books of All Time. His memoir, This Party's Got to Stop, won the Writers' Guild Non-Fiction Book of the Year. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in London.