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Olivia Laing is a widely acclaimed writer and critic. She writes for the Guardian, New York Times and Frieze among many other publications. Her first book, To the River, was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and the Dolman Travel Book of the Year. The Trip to Echo Spring was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Biography Award and the 2014 Gordon Burn Prize. The Lonely City was shortlisted for the 2016 Gordon Burn Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and has been translated into 15 languages. She lives in Cambridge. Sophie Aldred was born in Greenwich, England and brought up in Blackheath, South East London. She studied drama at university and spent time with children’s drama companies in small productions before she became Ace in the immensely popular Doctor Who in 1987. Aldred has had a varied and busy television career in children’s programming, as a voiceover artist for television advertisements and providing voices for animated series such as Bob the Builder, Sergeant Stripes and Dennis and Gnasher.
'A brave writer whose books open up fundamental questions about life and art.' -- The Telegraph ‘A warm, thinking, enticing sweep of a book, like spending the afternoon with your brainiest friend.’ -- Kate Mosse, bestselling author
