Benjamin Wood is the author of five acclaimed novels which have been shortlisted for numerous awards, including the Walter Scott Prize, the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, the Costa First Novel Award, the CWA Gold Dagger Award, the European Union Prize for Literature, the Commonwealth Book Award, and the RSL Encore Award. His most recent novel Seascraper was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2025 and won the Nero Book Award for Fiction and the Winston Graham Historical Prize. He has taught fiction and developed creative writing programmes at King's College London and Birkbeck, University of London but now writes full-time.