Thunder and Lightning

Colin Bateman is the author of more than thirty novels, including Divorcing Jack, Mystery Man, and I Predict a Riot. He wrote the screenplays for the film version of Divorcing Jack, and also for the movies Crossmaheart, Wild About Harry, The Journey, and Driven. He wrote the plays National Anthem, Bag for Life, and Nutcase. In 2010 he was made an Honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of Ulster, for his Services to Literature. He lives in Bangor, Northern Ireland.