Geoff Dyer is the author of three novels: Paris, Trance, The Search, The Colour of Memory; a critical study of John Berger, Ways of Telling; and three genre-defying titles, But Beautiful (winner of the 1992 Somerset Maughm Prize, shortlisted for the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize), The Missing of the Somme and Out of Sheer Rage.