Bearmouth

Liz Hyder is an award-winning author, an experienced workshop leader and an award-winning arts PR consultant. Her debut young adult novel Bearmouth won the Branford Boase Award and the Waterstones Children's Book Award for Older Readers and was published in America, France, Norway, Italy and the Czech Republic as well as the UK and throughout the Commonwealth. Hyder's debut book for adults, The Gifts, was a runner-up for the McKitterick Prize, and a second book for adults, The Illusions, was published in 2023. Her latest young adult book, The Twelve, was the winner of the 2024 Nero Book Awards prize for Children's Fiction.

Kit Griffiths is a London-based performer whose work includes theatre, voice work and visual arts. Kit writes and acts in her own plays, focusing on pushing boundaries. Kit narrated Derek Landy's Demon Road trilogy, which she enjoyed for the richness of word creation, as well as the cast of nearly a hundred characters to bring to life. Her other audiobook credits include Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors and Hannah Kaner's Fallen Gods series.