Ian McGuire Ian McGuire grew up near Hull and studied at the University of Manchester and the University of Virginia, USA. In 2007 he co-founded the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing. He is the author of Incredible Bodies, the 2016 Man Booker-lnglisted novel The North Water for which he won the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award, and The Abstainer. White River Crossing is his latest novel.  Read More Read Less