Born in Virginia and raised in both Hawaii and the state of Washington, Patrick Ness is the British-American author of seven novels and a short-story collection. He has won the Carnegie Medal twice, The Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, and the Costa Children’s Book Award. In 2012 his bestselling novel A Monster Calls became the first ever to win both the Kate Greenaway and Carnegie Medals. His books are published in more than 20 languages. He has lived in London for more than 20 years.
Alex Wingfield is an actor and musician with bases in London and Leeds. Alex completed the Musical Theatre postgraduate programme at the Royal Academy of Music. He has worked in a variety of fields, including audiobook narration, dubbing, ADR, educational voiceovers, commercial, games and animation. He specialises in narrating books aimed at a younger audience, with previous voice work including The Smallest Man by Frances Quinn and the Letters of Enchantment Series by Rebecca Ross.