Robert Macfarlane (Author) Robert Macfarlane's Sunday Times - and New York Times -bestselling books include Is a River Alive? , Underland , Landmarks , The Old Ways , The Wild Places and Mountains of the Mind , as well as a book-length prose-poem, Ness . His work has been translated into more than thirty languages, won prizes around the world, and been widely adapted for film, music, theatre, radio and dance. He has also written operas, plays, albums, choral works, and films including River and Mountain , both narrated by Willem Dafoe. Macfarlane has collaborated closely with artists including Olafur Eliasson, and with the artist Jackie Morris he co-created the internationally bestselling books of nature-poetry and art, The Lost Words and The Lost Spells . In 2017, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the E.M. Forster Prize for Literature, and in 2023 in Toronto he was the inaugural winner of the Weston International Award for a body of work in the field of non-fiction. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and is presently working on a graphic novel re-telling of the Epic of Gilgamesh .

Macfarlane and Morris's latest project, The Book of Birds, will be published in May 2026. David McKean (Illustrator) David McKean has illustrated and designed over eighty award winning and ground breaking books and graphic novels including The Magic of Reality ( Richard Dawkins), The Homecoming (Ray Bradbury), The Fat Duck Cookbook and Historic Heston ( Heston Blumenthal), What's Welsh for Zen (John Cale), The Savage , Slog's Dad and Mouse Bird Snake Wolf (David Almond), Arkham Asylum (Grant Morrison), Night Shift (Stephen King), Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino), Neuromancer (William Gibson), Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky), Roadside Picnic (The Strugatsky Brothers), Gormenghast (Mervyn Peake), Mr. Punch, Signal to Noise, Coraline, The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman), and Tyger , (SF Said) winner in 2023 of the UK National Award for Children's Book of the Year. He has written and illustrated Cages (Harvey, Pantera, Ignatz and Alph Art awards), two Pictures That Tick volumes of short stories (V+A Book of the Year), an erotic novel Celluloid, Raptor (German Peng! Prize), and Black Dog: The Dreams of Paul Nash , a commission by the 14-18 Now Foundation and the Imperial War Museum. A 600-page retrospective Thalamus: The Art of Dave McKean was published in 2023.