About
British author and broadcaster who is best known for his 2001 book The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes: A Paper Chase.
Before Fame
He was born in Uganda because his father was teaching at Makerere University but he was raised in Wandsworth, London.
Trivia
His book The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes: A Paper Chase won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2002.
Family Life
His father Paul was a travel writing and novelist and his younger brother Louis is a journalist.
Associated With
He won the Somerset Maugham Award four years before Zadie Smith did.
