The Dancing Face - Mike Phillips

Mike Phillips was born in Guyana, and grew up in London. He worked for the BBC as a journalist and broadcaster on television programs before becoming a lecturer in media studies at the University of Westminster. He has written many critically-acclaimed crime novels, including Blood Rights , which is being adapted for BBC television, and The Late Candidate , winner of the Crime Writers' Association Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction. He is also the author of an essay collection, London Crossings: A Biography of Black Britain . He lives in London.