Jim WestoverJim Westover was born in Kent in 1968 and grew up in Brightlingsea, Essex. He left school with one O-Level and fell into labouring work, including a year spent renovating old farm buildings in France. He later moved to London to study journalism and ublishing. Around this time, he dabbled in poetry, and one of his poems won a BBC Reggae Writing Competition. He also wrote lyrics, and performed regularly with Colchester art punks, Maniac Squat. While working the nightshift at a media monitoring company writing summaries of newspaper articles, he took an MA in Fiction at Middlesex University. He currently lives with his partner in Bethnal Green, East London. 'Penknife' is his first novel.Visit www.penknifenovel.com to find out more. Read More Read Less