Lindsay Clarke

[1] The landscape of hills, moors and crags around Halifax informed the growth of his imagination, while King's refined his sensibility and sharpened his intellect.

His debut novel, Sunday Whiteman, was shortlisted for the David Higham First Novel Award,[2] and his second novel The Chymical Wedding, partly inspired by the life of Mary Anne Atwood,[3] won the Whitbread Prize in 1989.

"[5] The Water Theatre was selected as a winner of the inaugural Fiction Uncovered competition[6] in 2011 and was included among The Times's Books of the Year.

In 2012 The Water Theatre was chosen as the inaugural e-book publication of The New York Review of Books under their NYRB Lit imprint.

[7] Before becoming a writer, Lindsay's career in education took him to Akim-Oda, Ghana, where he worked as Senior Master of a co-educational boarding school.