Non-librarians are welcome to join the group as well, to A place where all Goodreads members can work together to improve the Goodreads book catalog. His work has been translated into fifteen languages.moreĪ place where all Goodreads members can work together to improve the Goodreads book catalog. In December 2009, he signed a two-book deal with Little, Brown, to publish his Conquest Series. The Independent on Sunday and Sunday Telegraph both picked it for their Christmas Recommended Reads in 2005.Ĭiao Asmara, a factual account of his time in Eritrea, was shortlisted for the 2003 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. His second novel, Passing Under Heaven, won the 2005 Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Encore Award. It was also picked by the Washington Post as one of the Top Novels of 2001. His internationally acclaimed first novel, The Drink and Dream Teahouse, won the 2003 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and a 2002 Betty Trask Award, and banned by the government in China. He worked for seven years as a volunteer with VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas) in rural China and Africa, before returning home to Yorkshire in 1999. He was educated at St Peter's School, York, and was a member of St Cuthbert's Society, Durham University. He was born in Freeport, Grand Bahama Island in 1971 and was brought up in York. His second novel, Passing Under Heaven, won the 2005 Somerse Justin is an English novelist whose work has twice been nominated for the Man Booker Prize.
Justin is an English novelist whose work has twice been nominated for the Man Booker Prize.
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