Connolly, Tom: - Tom Connolly is an acclaimed filmmaker and writer. He has directed award-winning short films for the cinema and for Channel 4 and the BBC. His short stories and radio plays have been broadcast on Radio 4. His story 'The Man in the Lift' was shortlisted for the Imison Award. His first novel, The Spider Truces (a Financial Times Book of the Year), was shortlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award and the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award, and longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2011. His second novel, Men Like Air, was published in 2016.