Bateman was a journalist in Northern Ireland before becoming a full-time writer. His first novel, DIVORCING JACK, won the Betty Trask Prize, and all his novels have been critically acclaimed. He wrote the screenplays for the feature films DIVORCING JACK and WILD ABOUT HARRY and the popular TV series MURPHY'S LAW starring James Nesbitt. Bateman lives in Ireland with his family.
'An Ulster Carl Hiaasen' Mail on Sunday 'Terrific, mordant wit and a fine sense of the ridiculous...the writing is great' Evening Standard Bateman's is the ultimate word on the insanity of the Troubles: no one has done it better Scotland on Sunday