Pauline Melville Author

Film and TV actress Pauline Melville burst onto the literary scene in the early nineties with a short story collection, Shape-shifter, which won the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Macmillan Silver Pen Award and a Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Pauline's first novel, The Ventriloquist's Tale won the Whitbread First Novel Award, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She lives in London.