Anthony McCarten's debut novel, Spinners (1998) has been translated into four languages. His collection of short stories, A Modest Apocalypse, was shortlisted in the Heinemann-Reed Fiction Award in 1991. He has published three novels to date and also written twelve stage plays, including co-writing the world-wide success Ladies Night, which won the prestigious Moliere prize, the Meilleure Piece Comique in 2001. McCarten has also adapted another of his plays, Via Satellite, into a feature film which he directed, and which had its world premiere at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.