Guyanese-born writer and actress Pauline Melville’s first book, Shape-Shifter, won the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Macmillan Silver Pen Award and a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.

Her novel, The Ventriloquist’s Tale won the Whitbread First Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Her most recent book is a collection of short stories, The Migration of Ghosts. Eating Air is her second novel.

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