Underground

Tobias Hill was born in London. In 2003 the TLS nominated him as one the best young writers in Britain. In 2004 he was selected as one of the country’s Next Generation poets and shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. His collection of stories, Skin, won the Pen-Macmillan Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys/Mail on Sunday Prize. His other awards include an Eric Gregory Award in 1995 and the Ian St James Award in 1997. What Was Promised, his fifth novel, was published by Bloomsbury in March 2014.

Tobias died in August 2023.