BARRY UNSWORTH won the booker Prize in 1992 for ‘Sacred Hunger’; his next novel, ‘Morality Play’, was a Booker nominee and a bestseller in both the United States and Great Britain. His other novels include ‘The Hide’ and ‘Pascali's Island’, which was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize and subsequently made into a feature film. He lives in Umbria and is currently at work on a novel about Lord Nelson.