English Passengers

Matthew Kneale (born 1960) is a British author best known for his historical novel English Passengers (2000), which won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Other notable works include Whore Banquets (1987, Somerset Maugham Award), Sweet Thames (1992, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), and nonfiction titles like Rome: A History in Seven Sackings (2017). He lives in Rome with his family and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2003.