Awards and Recognition
- Winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Yorkshire Post Fiction Prize for Changing Places
- Whitbread Book of the Year (1980) for How Far Can You Go?
- Shortlisted for the Booker Prize (1984) for Small World
- Shortlisted for the Booker Prize (1988) for Nice Work
- Winner of the Sunday Express Book of the Year award (1988) for Nice Work
- Regional winner and finalist for the Commonwealth Writers Prize (1996) for Therapy
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
- The television serialization of Nice Work (which he adapted himself) won the Royal Television Society's Award for best Drama serial in the year 1989 and a Silver Nymph at the International Television Festival (Monte Carlo; 1990).
- Secret Thoughts, his own adaptation of his novel Thinks..., won the Best New Play award in the Manchester Theatre Awards at the Octagon Theatre, Bolton.
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