A Bath Spa University creative writing graduate has won a Costa Book Award.
Nathan Filer has won the Costa First Novel award for The Shock of the Fall, a portrait of a man's descent into mental illness.
He graduated from Bath Spa's MA creative writing course in 2010 and is now a part-time lecturer at the Newton Park campus, with his first novel published last May.
Dean of the School of Humanities and Cultural Industries, Professor Steve May, said: "Nathan Filer represents the kind of graduate Bath Spa creative writing is now producing – not just promising, but achieving at the highest level of artistic endeavour."
