"Justin Hill" is an England/English novelist whose novels have been nominated for the Man Booker Prize three times. Born in Freeport, Bahamas/Freeport, Grand Bahama Island in 1971, he grew up in Yorkshire. He was educated at the historic St Peter's School, York/St Peter's School, York.

Hill was a member of St Cuthbert's Society, Durham University, where he studied English Language and Medieval Literature. After leaving university in 1992, he worked with the Voluntary Service Overseas/VSO for seven years in rural People's Republic of China/China and Eritrea.

His first novel, The Drink and Dream Teahouse, is a commentary on contemporary China.

Passing Under Heaven, reimagines the life of female poet Yu Xuanji.

Ciao Asmara recounts the history and present of Eritrea.

Shieldwall is the first in the Conquest Trilogy of books, which chronicles the events surrounding the Battle of Hastings, in 1066.

His work has been translated into 14 languages, and banned in China. He reviews regularly for The Times Literary Supplement and the South China Morning Post.

In October . He teaches Creative Writing at the City University of Hong Kong.

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Most of the time, all you are doing is trimming them up and shaping them up.

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Don't use the word ?hurt' and ?haircut' in the same sentence.

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Don't make too big of a fuss out of things, The younger you can bring them in to get a haircut, the more likely they are going to get along with a haircut.

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[Clover Hill manager] Steve [Lough] asked me if I wanted to pitch and I said, 'Absolutely not,' ... But after they tied the game and I went out in the outfield and threw a little bit, I decided to give it a shot.

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Now our parents think it looks great. The neighbours are pretty happy. If [the Tigers] win, we will keep it for a couple of weeks.

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It's to scale - it's a proper football field. We have played footy on it, but there was no record kept of points.

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