Books by Colin Bateman

Colin Bateman was born in Northern Ireland in 1962 and educated at Bangor Grammar School before joining the County Down Spectator, where he was deputy editor for many years. He left in 1996 to become a full-time writer. In 1990 he received a Journalist's Fellowship to Oxford University for his reports from Uganda and won a Northern Ireland Press Award for his weekly satirical column. He was awarded the Betty Trask Prize in 1994.