Mr Anthony Cartwright

BIOGRAPHY

Anthony Cartwright is a novelist and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol. His debut novel, The Afterglow , won much acclaim – and a Betty Trask Award in 2004. His second novel, Heartland, was published by Tindal Street in May 2009 and praised by Jonathan Coe, David Peace, Catherine O’Flynn and DJ Taylor amongst many others. It was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and was a Book at Bedtime on BBC Radio 4. How I Killed Margaret Thatcher, a bitter-sweet comic novel that captures the intensity of early 1980s Britain through the eyes of an unusual 9 year old Black Country boy who plots to kill Margaret Thatcher, was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize.