Ned Beauman is a 29-year-old British writer and journalist. His debut novel, Boxer, Beetle (2013), received much critical acclaim, and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and won the UK Writers’ Guild Award and the Goldberg Prize for Outstanding Debut Fiction. The Guardian and Granta Magazine selected him as one of 20 most promising young British writers under 40, and the BBC declared him one of the best young novelists of 2013. His third novel, Glow, was published in 2014.