Marc Hamer was born in the North of England and moved to Wales over 30 years ago. After spending a period homeless, then working on the railway, he returned to education and studied fine art in Manchester and Stoke-on-Trent. He has worked in art galleries, marketing, graphic design and taught creative writing in a prison before becoming a gardener. His first book, A Life in Nature or How to Catch a Mole, was longlisted for the Wainwright Prize.
Matt Addis is a highly regarded audiobook narrator, and has voiced a wealth of work for Audible, Penguin Random House, Naxos, Oxford University Press, Hachette, Hodder & Stoughton, Bloomsbury and the Royal National Institute of Blind People. He is a multiple AudioFile EarPhones award winner and was nominated by Audible as one of 12 finalists for Audiobook of the Year.