Kevin Crossley-Holland is a Carnegie Medal-winning author and a well-known poet. His award-winning Arthur trilogy has won worldwide critical acclaim, sold well over one million copies and has been translated into twenty-five languages. He also wrote Arthur: The Always King, spectacularly illustrated by Chris Riddell. He is a world expert on Norse mythology and the author of Norse Myths for Walker Books. He has also translated Beowulf from Anglo-Saxon.
Jeffrey Alan Love is an award-winning artist and writer. Nominated for the World Fantasy Award, the Chesley Award, the British Science Fiction Award, The British Fantasy Award and the Spectrum Fantastic Art Award, he has also won a gold medal from the Society of Illustrators and two Academy of British Cover Design Awards. He lives in the USA.