RICHARD PRICE is an acclaimed poet and novelist. His poetry collection Lucky Day was shortlisted for the Whitbread (now Costa) poetry prize. His books are most concerned with memory, love, and modernity's breathless rate of change. His novel The Island follows a father and his daughter in a stolen car towards, it appears, the end of the world: "Understated yet devastating, controlled yet unpredictable - The Island is a story of rare qualities that many writers aim for and few achieve. Read it - it'll be one of the most beautiful nightmares you'll ever have." -- Toby Litt.
