Michael Hughes
Michael Hughes was born and raised in Keady, Northern Ireland, and now lives in London. He attended St Patrick’s Grammar School, Armagh, and read English at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He trained in theatre at the Jacques Lecoq School in Paris, and has worked for many years as an actor, under the professional name Michael Colgan. He studied creative writing at Royal Holloway, and at London Metropolitan University, where he also taught. His first novel, The Countenance Divine, was published by John Murray in 2016. Country is his second novel.
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Country
'Reading this book is like sitting in the pub listening to a good friend tell you stories. It does what only the best retellings can…
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The Countenance Divine
'Michael Hughes writes like a brilliant cross between David Mitchell and Hilary Mantel' Toby Litt In 1999 a programmer is trying to fix the millennium…