William Trevor was born in Cork in 1928 and lives in Devon. His novels, The Children of Dynmouth and Fools of Fortune, won Whitbread Awards and Reading Turgenev and Death in Summer have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His novel, Felicia's Journey, won the Whitbread Award and was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize and The Irish Times Literature Prize for International Fiction in 1995. The Hill Bachelors is published by Penguin.
Also shortlisted: Emma Donoghue, Slammerkin (Virago); Eoin McNamee, The Blue Tango (Faber and Faber)