Michael Collins was born in 1964 in Limerick, Ireland. He has written eight books, including six novels, since his first book of stories, The Meat Easters burst into print in 1992 (its effect compared by The Times to being mugged in a savage land). Since then he has won or been shortlisted for several major prizes including the Booker Prize and the Impac Prize. His novels have been translated into twenty languages.
In 1983 he was awarded an athletic scholarship to the University of Notre Dame in Chicago, and has in some ways been running ever since. He lives near Seattle in the US, although he keeps very close ties with Ireland and travels very widely for writing and sporting interests.
Current film adapations of his novels include The Resurrectionists to be directed by John Madden. Lost Souls is currently being adapted by A Film Monkey Production.
His titles include The Meat Eaters, (Cape 1992), The Life and Times of a Teaboy, (Orion 1993), The Feminists Go Swimming, (Orion 1994), Emerald Underground, (Orion 1998), The Keepers of Truth, (Orion 2000), The Resurrectionists, (Orion 2003), Lost Souls, (Orion 2004), The Secret Life of E. Robert Pendleton, (Orion 2006).
Michael is also an extreme athlete and has won The Last Marathon in the Antarctic and set a record time in winning both The Himalayan 100 Mile Race and The Everest Challenge Marathon.
Featured TitleThe Secret Life Of E. Robert Pendelton. The eponymous anti-hero of this brilliant take on a campus crime novel is a failed novelist and failed academic, a failed man - Robert Pendleton even muffs his own suicide. While he lies in a coma afterwards however, his literary career is revived and his previously overlooked masterpiece, a gruesome murder tale called Scream, begins to generate a new kind of re-evaluation. And not just from the critics. It turns out that the gruesome murder Pendleton had written about all those years before bears an uncanny resemblance to a real, unsolved murder.
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Publication date: April 2006
UK Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Michael Collins was born in 1964 in Limerick, Ireland. He has written eight books, including six novels, since his first book of stories, The Meat Easters burst into print in 1992 (its effect compared by The Times to being mugged in a savage land). Since then he has won or been shortlisted for several major prizes including the Booker Prize and the Impac Prize. His novels have been translated into twenty languages. 
Featured Title The Secret Life Of E. Robert Pendelton. The eponymous anti-hero of this brilliant take on a campus crime novel is a failed novelist and failed academic, a failed man - Robert Pendleton even muffs his own suicide. While he lies in a coma afterwards however, his literary career is revived and his previously overlooked masterpiece, a gruesome murder tale called Scream, begins to generate a new kind of re-evaluation. And not just from the critics. It turns out that the gruesome murder Pendleton had written about all those years before bears an uncanny resemblance to a real, unsolved murder.