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Mara Alperin enjoys reading, hiking, baking and playing Ultimate Frisbee when she’s not writing.

Patricia Adrian always wanted to write books, ever since she penned (literally, with a pen) her dozen-page long ‘novel’ in fifth grade. Her interests also include history (especially women in history), skulking around social media for much longer than she should, and reading, particularly when she’s on a tight deadline and should be writing instead.

Simon Armstrong is the Book Buyer for Tate Modern and Tate Britain, a writer, record collector and DJ.  He lives in London.

Born in Sapporo in 1966, Takuya Asakura graduated from the University of Tokyo. He won the first ‘This Mystery is Amazing!’ Grand Prize in 2002 for Yokkakan no Kiseki (The Miracle of Four Days), which was subsequently made into a film and sold over 1.3 million copies. Takuya is also a translator and translated Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library from English into Japanese.

Born in Sapporo in 1966, Takuya Asakura graduated from the University of Tokyo. He won the first ‘This Mystery is Amazing!’ Grand Prize in 2002 for Yokkakan no Kiseki (The Miracle of Four Days), which was subsequently made into a film and sold over 1.3 million copies. Takuya is also a translator and translated Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library from English into Japanese.

Born in Sapporo in 1966, Takuya Asakura graduated from the University of Tokyo. He won the first ‘This Mystery is Amazing!’ Grand Prize in 2002 for Yokkakan no Kiseki (The Miracle of Four Days), which was subsequently made into a film and sold over 1.3 million copies. Takuya is also a translator and translated Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library from English into Japanese.

Shahnaz Ahsan is an author, columnist and award-winning food writer. Her debut novel Hashim & Family was an Observer Best Book and was shortlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker Prize. Her articles and recipes have appeared in national daily newspapers and magazines, and have won grants from the Society of Authors and the Guild of Food Writers. Born and raised in West Yorkshire, Shahnaz is of British-Bangladeshi heritage, and has also lived in the USA, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe.