Lucy Newlyn, a retired Professor at Oxford University, is Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where she taught English for thirty-two years. She has published widely on English Romanticism (including four books with Oxford University Press) and is the author of two collections of poetry, Ginnel (Carcanet, 2005) and Earth's Almanac (Enitharmon, 2015).

She is currently assembling a new poetry collection, and working on an edition of Edward Thomas's prose for OUP. She lives in Oxford and Cornwall. The author's royalties for this book will be donated to MIND.

Michael A. O'Neill is a writer, translator, actor and musician who trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London and appeared on the West End Stage and in a number of films.

He has also written scripts for television documentaries which he also produced and narrated including the best selling series Hitlers War; these have been shown worldwide on a variety of TV broadcasters such as Discovery Channel and the History Channel. Michael has also written many best selling rock music books including biographies of Queen, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie and The Beatles and has also written a number of history books including The War Letters of German and Austrian Jews and Dying for The Kaiser which have been translated from German into English for the first time in 100 years.

He also writes on sport and has written the best selling Backpass Through History series of books on Liverpool FC, Manchester City FC, Manchester United FC Chelsea FC and Arsenal FC. Michael is currently writing a biography of the Bee Gees.