Nirpal Singh Dhallwal is thirty-one years old. A freelance journalist, he writes for The Times, the Guardian and the Evening Standard. He is married to the journalist Liz Jones, and currently lives in Hackney. He studied English and American literature at Nottingham University before starting a career in broadcasting with the BBC, which he left in 2000 to become a full-time writer. Tourism is his first novel.
* 'The best debut novel I have ever read - monumentally sexy, seriously shocking and touched with genius' - Julie Burchill