Lavinia Greacen is an author of Chink: A Biography (Macmillan London) which was a Sunday Times 'Book of the Year' and received rave reviews from The Financial Times, 'An unexpected and utter joy to read', and Mail on Sunday, 'Enthralling', plus world-wide reviews from Australia to the US. Her biography J G Farrell, The Making of a Writer, about the double Booker Prize winner, was widely praised, and she has edited J.G. Farrell In His Own Words.