Carol Birch (b Manchester 1951) is a British novelist and attended Keele University.[1] The author of eleven novels, she won the 1988 David Higham Award for the Best First Novel of the Year for Life in the Palace,[2] the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize with The Fog Line in 1991,[3] and she was long-listed for the 2003 ManBooker Prize for Turn Again Home.[2] Her novel Jamrach's Menagerie was long-listed for the Orange Prize 2011[4] and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011.[5] She currently lives in Lancaster with her family.[2]