Bethan Roberts' first novel The Pools won a Jerwood/Arvon Young
Writers' Award. Her second novel The Good Plain Cook was serialised
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. Her latest novel,
Mother Island, is the recipient of a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered
prize. She has also won the Society of Authors' Olive Cook Prize
and the RA Pin Drop Award for short fiction, and written drama for
BBC Radio 4. Bethan has worked in television documentaries, and has
taught Creative Writing at Chichester University and Goldsmiths
College, London.