Femi Kayode

Femi Kayode holds an MA in Creative Writing – Crime Fiction from the University of East Anglia, where his debut novel, Lightseekers, won the Little, Brown/UEA Crime Fiction Award. Lightseekers went on to be longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger, nominated for the Strand Critics Award for Best Debut Novel, and selected as a Waterstones Thriller of the Month. His second Philip Taiwo novel, Gaslight, was shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger and featured on the Zoe Ball BBC Radio 2 Book Club. He recently completed his PhD in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, UK. Femi lives in Windhoek, Namibia, with his family and four rambunctious dogs.