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name: Benjamin Wood
about: Benjamin Wood was born in 1981 and grew up in northwest England. He is the author of four acclaimed novels.His debut The Bellwether Revivals (2012) was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and the Commonwealth Book Prize, and won France's Prix du Roman Fnac.His second novel The Ecliptic (2015) was shortlisted for the Encore Award and the  Sunday Times  Young Writer of the Year Award. His third book  A Station on the Path to Somewhere Better (2018) was shortlisted for the European Union Prize for Literature and the CWA Gold Dagger Award.His latest work  The Young Accomplice  was published by Penguin Viking in June 2022. It was selected as one of the books of the year by  The Times ​&amp; Sunday Times, New Statesman, The Spectator, The Iri Benjamin Wood was born in 1981 and grew up in northwest England. He is the author of four acclaimed novels.His debut The Bellwether Revivals (2012) was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and the Commonwealth Book Prize, and won France's Prix du Roman Fnac.His second novel The Ecliptic (2015) was shortlisted for the Encore Award and the  Sunday Times  Young Writer of the Year Award. His third book  A Station on the Path to Somewhere Better (2018) was shortlisted for the European Union Prize for Literature and the CWA Gold Dagger Award.His latest work  The Young Accomplice  was published by Penguin Viking in June 2022. It was selected as one of the books of the year by  The Times ​&amp; Sunday Times, New Statesman, The Spectator, The Irish Times, and others. A serialised version of the novel was broadcast as a BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime in April 2023.Benjamin is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at King's College London. He lives in Surrey with his wife and sons. ...more