![]() He has a particular interest in other languages and has travelled widely. In 2013 his non-fiction book An Atheist's History of Belief was published. Matthew Kneale's latest books are Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance (2005), a collection of short stories Powder (2006), a novella and When We Were Romans (2007). ![]() It is told in 20 different voices, won the 2000 Whitbread Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction. ![]() He is the author of four novels: Whore Banquets (1987), set in Japan and later re-issued as Mr Foreigner (2002), winner of a Somerset Maugham Award Inside Rose's Kingdom (1989) Sweet Thames (1992), set in London in the 1840s and winner of a Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and English Passengers (2000).Įnglish Passengers is the story of the 19th century voyage to Tasmania of a disparate group of Englishmen in search of the Garden of Eden. Matthew Kneale was born in London in 1960, read Modern History at Oxford University and on graduating in 1982, spent a year teaching English in Japan, where he began writing short stories. ![]()
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