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Patrick Ness is the author of The Knife of Never Letting Go and The Ask and the Answer – books one and two in the Chaos Walking trilogy – for which he has won numerous awards, including the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Booktrust Teenage Prize. He was also shortlisted for the Carnegie medal. Patrick has written two other books for adults and is a literary critic for the Guardian. He lives in London.

Guy Adams is the author of the best-selling Rules of Modern Policing: 1973 Edition, a spoof police manual 'written' by DCI Gene Hunt of Life On Mars. Published by Transworld, it has sold over 120,000 copies and led to two sequels: The Future of Modern Policing: 1981 Edition and The Wit and Wisdom of Gene Hunt.

Guy has also written two Torchwood novels, The House That Jack Built and The Men Who Sold the World for BBC Books; and The Case Notes of Sherlock Holmes, a fictional facsimile of a scrapbook kept by Doctor John Watson. This was published in 2009 by Carlton Books in association with the Estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the writer's birth. Two brand new Sherlock Holmes novels, The Breath of God and The Army of Doctor Moreau have recently been published by Titan Books.

He has adapted three classic Hammer Horror movies for Hammer Books.  Kronos, Hands of the Ripper and Countess Dracula.

Guy is also the author of the fantasy novels The World House and its sequel Restoration, published by Angry Robot.

Currently he is working on a series of Weird Westerns for Solaris Books, The Heaven's Gate Chronicles will roll in 2013 with the first volume The Good, the Bad and the Infernal.