The Sleeper Train

Mick Jackson is an author and director from Lancashire, who now lives in Brighton. His first novel, The Underground Man, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and won the Royal Society of Authors’ First Novel Award. He has since written three more novels, a novella and a collection of stories. He is also the author of picture books: The Red Sledge, We're Moving House and The Sleeper Train. Find Mick online at mickjackson.com and on X as @mickwriter.

Baljinder Kaur is an illustrator living in the midlands. She graduated from the Cambridge School of Art with a Masters degree in Children's Book Illustration and, in 2022, was awarded the CSACBI Illustration for Older Fiction Prize. Her work intimately reflects through the lens of a Panjabi and Sikh diaspora existence. You can find her online at baljinderkaur.com and on Instagram as @blahjinder.