27-year old Chris Killen is already causing a stir with his explosive debut novel The Bird Room. The Bookseller and style bibles Vice and Dazed and Confused have hailed him as a leading new talent for 2009 and there is a huge buzz online due to the popularity of his blog Day of Moustaches, which won an award in 2008. Chris has recently been appointed a Writing Fellow at the University of Manchester’s Creative Writing department, alongside M. J. Hyland and Martin Amis, and runs a regular literary club night “there’s no point in not being friends with someone if you want to be friends with them.”