About the Author

David Gaffney comes from Cleator Moor in West Cumbria and now lives in Manchester. He is the author of Sawn-off Tales (2006), Aromabingo (2007), Never Never (2008), The Half-life of Songs (2010) and his latest collection of short stories, More Sawn-Off Tales ( 2013). He has written articles for the Guardian, Sunday Times, Financial Times and Prospect magazine and was a judge for the 2015 Bridport prize. His story "The Staring Man" is featured in the 2016 collection Best British Short Stories, his new novel, All The Places I've Ever Lived, is out in February 2017 on Urbane, and his graphic novel with Dan Berry,The Three Rooms In Valerie's Head, is out in March 2017 on Top Shelf.

Dan Berry is an illustrator, designer, cartoonist and lecturer based in the town of Shrewsbury, UK. Heis the Programme Leader for the BA/MDES Illustration, Graphic Novels and Children's Publishing degree courses at the School of CreativeArts,Wrexham Glyndwr University. Since 2012 he has producedthe podcastMake It Then Tell Everybody in which he has spokento over a hundred otherartists about what they do and how they do it. He also records a comedy podcast with Hannah Berry (no relation) entitled No YOU Hang Up. He has produced illustration work for The NME, Michael Rosen, The National Union of Teachers, and more.