BIOGRAPHY

Alice Thompson grew up in Edinburgh and read English at Oxford University. She played keyboard with the band, The Woodentops, and is the author of four novels: Justine (1996), winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction); Pandora's Box (1998); Pharos (2002): and The Falconer (2008).

She was formerly Writer in Residence for Shetland and in 2000, won a Creative Scotland Award. She teaches creative writing at the Arvon Foundation.