Audrey Magee is from Ireland and lives in Wicklow. The Colony, her second novel, was published last February and has been nominated for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. Her first novel, The Undertaking was shortlisted for the Womens Prize for Fiction, for the Irish Book Awards and for France’s Festival du Premier Roman. Both novels have been translated into many languages, and both are being adapted for film. Previously a journalist, she wrote for The Times, The Irish Times, The Guardian and Observer, and broadcast with BBC and RTÉ, the Irish state broadcaster.