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Bethan Roberts is an award-winning author.

Born in Abingdon, her first novel The Pools was published in 2007 and won a Jerwood/Arvon Young Writers’ Award. Her second novel The Good Plain Cook, published in 2008, was serialized on BBC Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime and was chosen as one of Time Out’s books of the year.

My Policeman, the story of a 1950s policeman, his wife and his male lover, followed in 2012, and was chosen as that year’s City Read for Brighton.  It is being made into a film rumoured to be starring Harry Styles and Lily James.

Her latest novel, Mother Island, is the recipient of a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered prize. She also writes short fiction, and drama for BBC Radio 4. Bethan has worked in television documentary, and has taught Creative Writing at Chichester University and Goldsmiths College, London. She lives in Brighton with her family.

Bethan won the inaugural RA & Pin Drop Short Story Award 2015 with her superb short story, Ms Featherstone and The Beast – listen to the story being narrated in our podcast with Stephen Fry.