Originally from Galway City, Conor Bowman was educated in Newbridge College Co Kildare and then went on to study Law and English at UCG for a huge chunk of the 1980's. After graduating he obtained a Master's Degree at Cambridge before muddling through the Kings Inns to become a barrister. His first novel, Wasting By Degrees, was published in 1998 by Ashfield Press. Since then he has produced two other books. Life and Death and in Between (a collection of short stories) was self-published in 2004. In October 2008 his double novel The Last Estate/The Redemption of George Baxter Henry was published in Ireland by Clockwork Press. These two novels are printed upside-down of each other and both stories are set in the village of Gigondas in Provence, although they take place some eighty years apart. In January of this year The Permanent Press, an independent publisher in upstate New York, signed Conor in a two-book deal which will see both of these novels published separately in the US next year. The deal includes the world-wide rights for both plus subsidiary rights. At present Conor is working on his fourth novel; a contemporary story set in Dublin which follows the protagonist in his battle against forced retirement and the grim realisation that what lurks beyond is more final than most of us had hoped. The main character, Horace Winter, is a lepidopterist who has his own final, brilliant life in the sunshine to discover before his own dusk falls. Conor is a lifelong fan of Elvis Presley and the photo attached was taken in Graceland in 2007. His favourite writers are Graham Greene, Patricia Highsmith, Mary Honan and Juliet Bressan. His favourite colour is Rathfarnham Yellow.