JAMES CLAMMER was born in Bristol and grew up in East Anglia. He has worked at many kinds of jobs, including plumbing. He now lives in Sussex, where he writes in a shed at the bottom of a cliff. James’s first novel, Why I Went Back – a work of YA fiction compared with Susan Cooper and Alan Garner – was nominated for the Carnegie Medal and longlisted for the Branford Boase Award.

James’s first adult novel, Insignificance, was published by Galley Beggar Press in May 2021.

Praise for Insignificance:

“Clammer writes with languorous lyricism and wit” —The Spectator

“An impressive, uncompromising performance… [Insignificance] gives the inner reality of blue collar life a respect and attention it rarely gets.” —The Sunday Times

“A gripping and unsettling novel that… marks Clammer out as an ambitious and fiercely committed writer.” —The TLS