Chris Cleave is a novelist and is currently moonlighting as columnist for The Guardian newspaper in London.

His debut novel INCENDIARY was an international bestseller published in 20 countries to awards and critical acclaim. A controversial open letter to Osama bin Laden, INCENDIARY gained notoriety for the macabre coincidence of its UK publication on 7th July 2005, the day of the London terrorist bombings.

Inspired by his early childhood in West Africa and by an accidental visit to a British concentration camp, Cleave’s second novel is entitled THE OTHER HAND in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. It is entitled LITTLE BEE in the US and Canada.