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Rick McGrath Author & Editor

Maxim Jakubowski is a noted anthology editor based in London, just a mile or so away from where he was born. With over 70 volumes to his credit, including Invisible Blood, the 13 annual volumes of The Mammoth Book of Best British Mysteries, and titles on Professor Moriarty, Jack the Ripper, Future Crime and Vintage whodunits. A publisher for over 20 years, he was also the co-owner of London's Murder One bookstore and the crime columnist for Time Out and then The Guardian for 22 years. Stories from his anthologies have won most of the awards in the field on numerous occasions. He is currently the Chair of the Crime Writers' Association and a Sunday Times bestselling novelist in another genre. Rick McGrath is a Canadian writer, editor, designer, and publisher who began reading and collecting JG Ballard in 1976. He began his career as a journalist in 1969 and then, in 1978, switched into advertising where he held senior creative roles until his retirement in 2000. He initiated The Terminal Press in 2013 and has since published eight annual JG Ballard anthologies, a book of his 1969-1972 underground press rock star interviews and photos, two books by the Canadian playwright Lawrence Russell, and an academic study of Ballard by Dominika Oramus. He also runs the popular Ballard website, jgballard.ca, and has contributed many articles to the now-defunct website ballardian.com. He currently owns the world’s largest non-institutional collection of Ballard books and memorabilia Christopher Fowler is the multi- award-winning author of 45 novels and short story collections, and the author of the Bryant & May mysteries. He has written comedy and drama for BBC radio, scripts, features and columns for national press, graphic novels, the play and the videogame for Paramount, starring Sir Patrick Stewart. His short story ‘The Master Builder’ became a feature film entitled , starring Tippi Hedren. Among his awards are the Edge Hill Prize for , the Last Laugh Award for and . He lives in London and tweets @Peculiar.