Matthew Kneale

MATTHEW KNEALE studied modern history at Oxford University. He then spent a year in japan where he began writing short stories. Kneale is the author of several novels, including English Passengers (2000), which won the Whitbread Book Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He currently lives in Rome.

He is the author of:

An Atheist’s History of Belief: Understanding Our Most Extraordinary Invention