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Philip Hensher has written eleven novels, including The Mulberry Empire, the Booker shortlisted The Northern Clemency, King of the Badgers, Scenes from Early Life, which won the Ondaatje Prize in 2012, The Friendly Ones and A Small Revolution in Germany. He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Bath Spa and lives in south London and Geneva.

Hugo Hamilton was born and grew up in Dublin. He is the author of six highly acclaimed novels: ‘Surrogate City’, ‘The Last Shot’ and ‘The Love Test’ (Faber); ‘Headbanger’ and ‘Sad Bastard’ (Secker); one collection of short stories; and the internationally acclaimed memoir, ‘The Speckled People’.

Kathryn Harrison is the author of the novels ‘The Binding Chair’, ‘Exposure’, ‘A Thousand Orange Trees’ and ‘Envy’, as well as two volumes of memoirs, ‘The Kiss’ and ‘Seeking Rapture’, all available from Fourth Estate. She lives in New York with her husband, the novelist Colin Harrison, and their children.