BENJAMIN JOHNCOCK is an award-winning British novelist, short story writer and journalist. His debut novel, The Last Pilot, was published in the U.S. (Picador) and U.K. (Myriad) in 2015 to widespread critical acclaim. It won the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award, was shortlisted for the East Anglian Book of the Year, selected for Brave New Reads, and was one of The Observer’s Hidden Gems of 2016. His award-winning short stories have been published by The Fiction Desk, The Junket, Comma Press and Storgy. His journalism has appeared in the Guardian, The Spectator, and many others, and he has worked as an editor and copywriter. He’s on the editorial board of The Letters Page, a literary journal edited by Jon McGregor at the University of Nottingham, and he’s a creative writing tutor and mentor for the National Centre for Writing. He was born in Canterbury, in 1978, and lives in Norwich with his wife and two children. ‘Nostalgic and heart-rending... supercharged Hemingway at 70,000 feet.’ —Washington Post ‘By far the best debut novel I’ve read in years.’ —Joanne Harris ‘Reading Johncock one is reminded of Hemingway, Cormac McCarthy and James Salter. A first-rate novel by a major new talent.’ —The Spectator