Walter Ellis

Walter Ellis was born in Belfast in 1948 and worked as a journalist in Ireland and abroad for The Irish Times, Financial Times, Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Times. His first book, The Oxbridge Conspiracy (1994), addressed social inequality and elitism in British education and society. In his memoir The Beginning of the End (2006), Ellis looked back at growing up in Belfast before the Troubles and at his friendship with a distant cousin, Ronnie Bunting, who later became a commander and assassin in the Irish National Liberation Army. He has written two novels, The Caravaggio Conspiracy (2012) - originally published as The Caravaggio Code by Newton Compton in Italy in 2011 - and the Second World War thriller Franco's Map (2013). Ellis now lives in New York.