McBride, Eimear: - Eimear McBride is the author of two novels: The Lesser Bohemians(James Tait Black Memorial Prize) and A Girl is a Half-formed Thing(Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction, Irish Novel of the Year, the Goldsmiths Prize, and others). She was the inaugural creative fellow at the Beckett Research Centre, University of Reading and occasionally writes for the Guardian, TLS, New Statesman and the Irish Times.