The Museum of Modern Love

Heather Rose is a bestselling and award-winning Australian author who was born on the remote island of Tasmania. Rose's books demonstrate a breadth of literary endeavour from literary fiction to magical realism, crime fiction to fantasy, political fiction to memoir. She is also one half of the children’s author Angelica Banks. Rose's novels have won numerous prizes including the Stella Prize, the Christina Stead Prize, the Margaret Scott Prize and the ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year, while The Museum of Modern Love won the Fiction category at the 2017 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. Her work has been published internationally and translated into numerous languages. Rose lives in Tasmania and her latest novel, to be published in 2025, is historical fiction with a time span from the French Revolution to early colonial Van Diemen’s Land.

Laurel Lefkow is one of the top US voices in the UK. She is a regular on BBC Radio 4 in radio plays, narrating the Book of the Week and Book at Bedtime. She has won awards for her audiobooks including Best Female Narrator of the Year. Laurel has voiced numerous computer games including main roles in Alien vs Predator, and is the voice of Ripley in Audible's Original Drama Alien: Sea of Sorrows. Recent film and television credits include Black Mirror, The Diplomat, Absentia and the films Fair Play and Misbehaviour. Laurel lives in London with her two daughters.