Alex Falase-Koya has been writing children' s fiction since he was a teenager and was a winner of Spread the Word' s 2019 London Writers Awards for YA and Children' s. Marv is his debut series and he is the co-author of The Breakfast Club Adventures, the first fiction book by England footballer Marcus Rashford. Paula Bowles studied Illustration at Falmouth College of Arts and is a children' s book illustrator working for Nosy Crow and Simon and Schuster, as well as OUP.