Lesley Glaister (born 4 October 1956)[1] is a British novelist, poet and playwright.
She is a lecturer in creative writing at the University of St Andrews,[2] and is a regular contributor of book reviews to The Spectator and The Times.
[3] Her subject matter is often serious (murder, madness and obsession crop up regularly in her books) but with a thread of dark humour running through it.
Her first novel Honour Thy Father (1990) won the Somerset Maugham Award and a Betty Trask Award, Now You See Me was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for fiction in 2002, and Easy Peasy was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1998.
[2][4] Little Egypt, published in 2014, won a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize.