Derek Beaven lives in Maidenhead, Berkshire. His first novel, ‘Newton’s Niece’ (1994), was shotlisted for the Writers’ Guild Best Novel Prize and won a Commonwealth Prize. ‘Acts of Mutiny’ was published in 1999, followed by the Booker long-listed novel, ‘If the Invader Comes’ (2001), and ‘His Coldest Winter’ (2005).
