Novelist. Books include "The War Zone" (1989, Doubleday), "Five And A Half Times Three" (1990, Hamish Hamilton, written with Ann Totterdell, about the death from cancer of their five-and-a-half-year-old son, Joe Buffalo), "Tribes" (1992, Doubleday), "Life On Mars" (1996, Doubleday) and the children's books, "Joe, Jo-Jo And The Monkey Masks" (1988, Andersen Press) and "Henry And The Sea" (1989, Puffin, written with Joe Buffalo Stuart).