The Catastrophist
By (Author) Ronan Bennett
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Book Publishing
6th August 1998
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
Short-listed for Whitbread Book Awards: Novel Category 1998
Width 152mm, Height 34mm, Spine 232mm
535g
Ronan Bennett was born and brought up in Belfast, and has a Ph.D. in history from King's College, London. He is the author of The Second Prison (shortlisted for the Irish Times/Aer Lingus prize), Overthrown By Strangers, The Catastrophist (shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award) and most recently Havoc, in its Third Year (longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2004). He has written screenplays for film and t.v. for BBC1 - and also works as a journalist.