p>b>James Scudamore/b> is the author of the novels i>Wreaking/i>, i>Heliopolis/i>, and i>The Amnesia Clinic/i>. He has received the Somerset Maugham Award and been nominated for the Costa First Novel Award, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Man Booker Prize.br>br>www.jamesscudamore.com/p>