MALACHY TALLACK has written for the New Statesman, the Guardian, Caught by the River, and many other publications, online and print. He won a New Writers' Award from Scottish Book Trust in 2014, and the Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship in 2015. He is from Shetland, and currently lives in Glasgow. Malachy is the author of Sixty Degrees North: Around the World in Search of Home and The Un-Discovered Islands: An Archipelago of Myths and Mysteries, Phantoms and Fakes. KATIE SCOTT is the illustrator of Botanicum, and of the best-selling Animalium, which was chosen as the Sunday Times Children's Book of the Year, 2014. She studied illustration at the University of Brighton and is inspired by the elaborate paintings of Ernst Haeckel.