Patricia Duncker was born in Kingston, Jamaica Her first novel, Hallucinating Foucault, won the Dillons First Fiction Award and the McKitterick Prize and has a quiet cult status. Later novels include James Miranda Barry, The Deadly Space Between and Miss Webster and Chérif. Patricia has published two collections of short stories, Monsieur Shoushana’s Lemon Trees and Seven Tales of Sex and Death.
Her story ‘Give Back My Book’ features in Light Transports.