Stella Duffy is an award-winning writer with over seventy short stories, fourteen plays written and devised, and seventeen novels published in fifteen languages. She has worked in theatre for over thirty-five years as an actor, director, playwright, and facilitator. She is the co-founder of the UK and worldwide Fun Palaces campaign supporting community connection. She was awarded the OBE for Services to the Arts in 2016. Her new novel Lullaby Beach is published by Virago on Feb 4.

Niven Govinden is the author of five previous novels, most recently This Brutal House, which was longlisted for the Jhalak Prize and shortlisted for the Polari and Gordon Burn Prizes. His sixth novel is Diary of a Film, published by Dialogue Books.