Justin is an international author whose award-winning work spans eras as distant from one another as modern China in ‘The Drink and Dream Teahouse’, eleventh century Europe in ‘Viking Fire’ and Eritrea, East Africa in ‘Ciao Asmara’. His work has won numerous wards including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and a Betty Trask Award. His work has also been selected by the Sunday Times, The Times, The Independent, Telegraph on Sunday and Washington Post as their Books of the Year. In 2014 he was selected to write the sequel to the Oscar winning film, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.