Benjamin Wood (born 1981) is a British author and academic who has written five novels. == Work == Wood's first novel, The Bellwether Revivals, was shortlisted for the 2012 Costa Book Award for First Novel and the 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize. It won France's Prix du roman Fnac in 2014. His second novel, The Ecliptic, was inspired by the three months he spent in Istanbul for an artist-in-residence cultural exchange programme organised by the British Council. It was shortlisted for the 2016 Su…