Mary Horlock

Mary Horlock was born in Australia but brought up in Guernsey in the Channel Islands. She was previously a curator in contemporary art at Tate Liverpool and Tate Britain, and she was for a time the curator of the Turner Prize, the Tate’s annual prize for contemporary art awarded to an artist under 50. Her novel, the Book of Lies, was long-listed for the Guardian First Book Award and described as a ‘sizzling debut’ by the Times. She lives with her family in London.